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For the 12-month period ending September 1, 2009, the airport had 9,110 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 98.5% general aviation and 1.5% air taxi. At that time there were 48 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single- engine , 6% helicopter , and 2% multi-engine.
La Plata County Airport opened to commercial airline service in 1946. [7] [8] The first scheduled airline service to the La Plata County Airport began on November 27, 1946, when Monarch Air Lines initiated flights to Denver with stops at Monte Vista, Canon City, Pueblo, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, using Douglas DC-3 aircraft. [7]
Monarch Air Lines was an American local service airline based in Denver, Colorado, that began its scheduled air service on November 27, 1946, with a flight from Denver to Durango, Colorado, using a Douglas DC-3. It was formed by F.W. Bonfils of The Denver Post family and Ray M. Wilson, who operated a Denver flying school.
Colorado Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Airport: June 15, 2017 November 4, 2017 [27] United States Colorado Hayden/ Steamboat Springs: Yampa Valley Airport: 2017 Present United States Colorado Denver: Denver International Airport [when?] 2007 United States Colorado Gunnison: Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional Airport: 2015 2017 United States ...
In 1992 Mesa began another affiliation with America West Airlines and the Phoenix flights began operating as America West Express. Flights to Las Vegas were also briefly added and operated as America West Express in the mid-1990s. By this time Mesa was the backbone air carrier at Farmington operating over 30 departures per day at times amongst ...
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 201,752 Grand Junction: GJT: GJT KGJT Grand Junction Regional Airport (Walker Field) P-N ...
Monarch Airlines (1946-1950) was serving Gunnison by the late 1940s. [6] Monarch was then merged with two other airlines to form the original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) which in 1950 was operating Douglas DC-3 service on a round trip routing of Denver - Pueblo, CO - Canon City, CO/Florence, CO - Gunnison, CO - Montrose, CO - Grand Junction, CO several times a day. [7]
These flights would then continue onto Kansas City or to Memphis. Boeing 727-200 and 737-200 jets were flown from Pueblo to Colorado Springs and Denver from 1971 through 1981. These flights typically continued onto Kansas City and St. Louis. 737 jets were also flown to Durango, CO briefly in the late 1970s.