Airlake Airport (ICAO: KLVN, FAA LID: LVN) is a public use airport in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.[1] Owned by the Metropolitan Airports Commission, It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of both downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul[2] [1] The airport is located near the Twin Cities suburbs of Lakeville and Farmington.

Airlake Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KLVN FAA LID: LVN
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Metropolitan Airports Commission
Serves	Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Location	Lakeville, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL	960 ft / 293 m
Coordinates	44°37′40″N 093°13′41″W
Map
LVN Location of airport in Minnesota / United States Show map of Minnesota LVN LVN (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 4,099 1,249 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2014) 34,174 Based aircraft (2017) 108
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

This facility is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport.[3]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned LVN by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[4][5]

Facilities and aircraft

Airlake Airport covers an area of 425 acres (172 ha) at an elevation of 960 feet (293 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,099 by 75 feet (1,249 x 23 m).[1]

Traffic pattern altitude is 1760′ MSL (800 AGL). Runway 12 is right traffic.

Future plans include new hangars in the southwest corner of the airfield, expanding the primary runway to 4,600 feet (1,400 m) and developing a 2,500-foot (760 m) crosswind runway.

There is one fixed-base operator (FBO), Aircraft Resource Center.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2014, the airport had 34,174 aircraft operations, an average of 94 per day, 95% general aviation, 4% air taxi and 1% military. In January 2017, there were 108 aircraft based at this airport: 99 single-engine and 9 multi-engine.[1]

References

External links

• Airlake Airport at Metropolitan Airports Commission
• "Airlake Airport" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-24. (295 KB) at Minnesota DOT airport directory
• Aircraft Resource Center, the fixed-base operator (FBO)
• Aerial image as of April 1991 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for LVN, effective May 19, 2022

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for LVN
  • AirNav airport information for KLVN
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures