Bentonville Municipal Airport (ICAO: KVBT, FAA LID: VBT) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Bentonville, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.[1] It is also known as Louise M. Thaden Field[1] or Louise Thaden Field, a name it was given in 1951 to honor Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905–1979), an aviation pioneer from Bentonville.[2]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Bentonville | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Bentonville, Arkansas | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,296 ft / 395 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°20′45″N 094°13′10″W | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.[3] Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned VBT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[4]
Bentonville Municipal Airport covers an area of 140 acres (57 ha) at an elevation of 1,296 feet (395 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 18/36 with a surface measuring 4,426 by 65 feet (1,349 x 20 m)[1] and one turf runway measuring 2,400 by 75 feet (732 x 23 m) designated 17/35, available for use in day VFR conditions.[5]
For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2015, the airport had 32,300 aircraft operations, an average of 88 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military. At that time there were 77 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 7.8% multi-engine and 2.6% helicopter.[1]
In 2018 a major update of the airport was completed, including a new flight center, public meeting rooms, a museum, and a restaurant, "Louise", added to the northern border with Lake Bentonville.[6][7]
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This list is incomplete. Bentonville West High School is in Centerton though it serves parts of Bentonville. |
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