Colorado Springs East Airport is a private
airport
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located east of the
central business district of the city of
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since ...
, and northwest of the central business district of the city of
Ellicott in
El Paso County,
Colorado
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,
United States
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. The airport is privately owned by Springs East Airport, Inc.
The airport is north of
Highway 94 via a gravel road, and
taxiway
A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete, although smaller general aviation airports sometimes use gravel ...
s and vehicle roadways are gravel/grass/dirt.
Facilities and aircraft
Colorado Springs East Airport covers a total area of 284
acres
which contains three
runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...
s:
* Runway 17R/35L: , surface: asphalt
* Runway 17L/35R: , surface: gravel
* Runway 8/26: , surface: gravel/dirt
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 8,760 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 80%
general aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...
local, 20% general aviation transient, and no military. There are 58 aircraft based at this airport: 54 single engine, one multi-engine, one helicopter, one glider, one ultra-light, and no military.
See also
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List of airports in Colorado
This is a list of airports in Colorado (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that ...
References
External links
Colorado Springs East Airportat Colorado DOT website
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Airports in Colorado
Transportation buildings and structures in El Paso County, Colorado
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