Vance Brand Airport


Vance Brand Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Longmont, in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The Airport is named after former NASA astronaut Vance Brand.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned LMO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Vance Brand Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 5,055 feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a concrete surface measuring 4,800 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending August 28, 2008, the airport had 99,990 aircraft operations, an average of 273 per day: 99.9% general aviation and <0.1% military. At that time there were 281 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 7% multi-engine, 1% jet, 3% helicopter and 6% ultralight.