Vance Brand Airport (ICAO: KLMO, FAA LID: LMO, formerly AMR) is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Longmont, in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The Airport is named after former NASA astronaut Vance Brand.

Vance Brand Airport
USGS aerial image, 2002. Photo by United States Geological Survey (USGS), Public Domain.
IATA: none ICAO: KLMO FAA LID: LMO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Longmont
Serves	Longmont, Colorado
Elevation AMSL	5,055 ft / 1,541 m
Coordinates	40°09′51″N 105°09′49″W
Website	longmontcolorado.gov/airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 11/29 4,800 1,463 Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 99,990 Based aircraft 281

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 (which assigned LMO to RAF Lossiemouth in Lossiemouth, Scotland).

Facilities and aircraft

Vance Brand Airport covers an area of 261 acres (106 ha) at an elevation of 5,055 feet (1,541 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with a concrete surface measuring 4,800 by 75 feet (1,463 x 23 m).

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.

History

The airport was originally opened October 28, 1945, as Longmont Municipal Airport. The airport was renamed to Vance Brand Airport in October 1988.

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