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The airport opened on May 12, 1968, as Arapahoe County Airport, and was renamed on July 13, 1984. The new name reflects Colorado's admission to the Union as the 38th state in 1876, the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1985 a new control tower was built.
Key Lime Air Flight 970, a Swearingen Metroliner, collides in mid-air with a Cirrus SR22 light aircraft near Denver's Centennial Airport. Both aircraft sustain severe damage but make safe emergency landings. [citation needed] 21 May Aerion, developer of the Aerion AS2 supersonic business jet, shuts down as it lacks funds. [17] 23 May
Tail section of Key Lime Air Flight 970 at Centennial Airport. At about 10:20 AM local time, a Cirrus SR22 light aircraft collided in mid-air with Key Lime Air Flight 970, an air charter cargo flight from Salida, Colorado, operated by a Swearingen SA226-TC Metroliner over Cherry Creek State Park in Arapahoe County.
In 2003, the first Living Legends of Aviation Awards were presented at a banquet dinner hosted by Airport Journals at the Centennial Airport in Englewood, Colorado. To avoid any weather related issues, in 2006 the venue was moved to Southern California and held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles.
In 2008, Centennial voters approved a referendum by approximately a 2-to-1 margin making Centennial a home rule city. [8] Centennial Airport, formerly Arapahoe County Airport, lies adjacent to Centennial, but is located in unincorporated Arapahoe County. The airport is not named after the city, as it predates the city by over 30 years.
Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) P-N 248,781 Colorado Springs: COS: COS KCOS City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport: P-S 941,917 Denver: DEN: DEN KDEN Denver International Airport: P-L 28,645,527 Durango: DRO: DRO KDRO Durango–La Plata County Airport: P-N 200,245 Eagle/Vail: EGE: EGE KEGE Eagle County Regional Airport: P-N ...
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June 23–26, 2009 from Denver (APA, Centennial Airport) to Atlantic, Iowa (AIO, Atlantic Municipal Airport), a distance of 2359.0 nm/2714.7 sm. The race was won by pilots Kelly Burris of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Erin Recke of Seattle in a Beechcraft Debonair.