Valle Airport
35°38′58″N112°08′31″W/ 35.6495193°N 112.1419097°W
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Airport type | Privately-owned/Public Use | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Grand Canyon Valle Corp. | ||||||||||
Serves | Valle, Arizona | ||||||||||
ElevationAMSL | 5,999 ft / 1,828.5 m | ||||||||||
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Valle Airport(IATA:VLE,FAALID:40G) is a privately owned public use airport[2]located 29miles(25nmi;47km) north ofWilliams, Arizona,United States. Valle is the second location ofPlanes of Fame Air Museum.[1]
Planes of Fame
[edit]The Valle branch ofPlanes of Fameopened in 1995 because theChinocollection had grown so greatly an additional facility was needed. 40 of the museum's 150 aircraft are kept in Valle, many of which are flyable. APacific AirlinesMartin 404 and aWestern AirlinesConvair 240 are displayed alongside Arizona highway 64 30 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park.[3]
Facilities and aircraft
[edit]Valle Airport covers an area of 330acres(130ha) at anelevationof 5,999feet(1,828m) abovemean sea level.It has onerunway:
For the 12-month period ending April 20, 2009, the airport had 6,500general aviationaircraft operations, an average of 18 per day. At that time there were six aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.[1]
Historical airline service
[edit]Trans World Airlines(TWA) servedGrand Canyon National Parkvia the Valle Airport during the late 1940s.[4]According to a Trans World timetable which appeared in the October 1948Official Airline Guide,Valle was a stop on transcontinental flights operated by TWA with routings of Philadelphia – Pittsburgh – Chicago – Kansas City – Wichita – Amarillo – Albuquerque – Winslow, AZ – Grand Canyon (Valle Airport) – Boulder City, NV – Las Vegas – Los Angeles and also Baltimore – Washington, D.C. – Columbus, OH – Dayton – Indianapolis – St. Louis – Kansas City – Topeka – Wichita – Amarillo – Santa Fe, NM – Winslow, AZ – Grand Canyon (Valle Airport) – Las Vegas – Los Angeles.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcdFAA Airport Form 5010 for 40Guse=PUPDF.Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
- ^"Airport Data and Information Portal".
- ^"Planes of Fame – Valle, AZ Location".planesoffame.org.
- ^Oct. 1948 Official Airline Guide, Trans World Airlines system timetable