Livermore Municipal Airport
ATC tower
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorCity of Livermore
LocationLivermore, California
Elevation AMSL400 ft / 122 m
Coordinates37°41′36.2″N 121°49′13.3″W / 37.693389°N 121.820361°W / 37.693389; -121.820361
Websitewww.cityoflivermore.net/airport
Map
LVK is located in California
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LVK is located in the United States
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
7L/25R 5,253 x 100 1,601 × 30 Asphalt
7R/25L 2,699 x 75 823 × 23 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface
ft m
H1 24 x 22 7 × 7 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Based aircraft425
Aircraft operations148,153

Livermore Municipal Airport (IATA: LVK, ICAO: KLVK) is three miles west of Livermore, California, in Alameda County, California.[1] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional reliever facility.[2]

The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest commercial airports are Oakland International Airport and San Jose International Airport. In the 1976-1977 OAG the regional airline California Air Commuter had scheduled service listed at Livermore, using Piper Navajos.

Facilities

FAA diagram

Livermore Municipal Airport covers 644 acres (261 ha) at an elevation of 400 feet (122 m). It has two asphalt runways:[1]

  • 7L/25R is 5,253 by 100 feet (1,601 × 30m). Is approved for instrument approaches.
  • 7R/25L is 2,699 by 75 feet (823 × 23m). It was built in 1985 and is used mainly for training.[3]

The airport has one asphalt helipad: H1 is 24 by 22 feet (7.3 m × 6.7 m).

In the year ending May 1, 2018 the airport had 148,153 aircraft operations, average 424 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi, <1% airline and <1% military. In September 2018, 461 aircraft were based at this airport: 417 single-engine, 33 multi-engine, 6 jet, and 5 helicopter.[1]

Besides the 8,400-square-foot (780 m2) terminal building,[4] built in 2015, there are nearly 400 aircraft storage hangar units, a corporate-style hangar building containing 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of space and an aircraft storage shelter.

Expansion plans

In 2021 KaiserAir filed a letter of intent to expand to Livermore Municipal Airport:

  • Phase One: Concrete apron ( 293,200 square feet), terminal building 5,000 square feet), fuel storage, self- service avgas fuel station, vehicle parking lot and airfield infrastructure improvements
  • Phase Two: Hangar complex ( 64,000 square feet), 18 rectangular 60' x60' hangars
  • Phase Three: Two-story office building and hangar complex ( 38,000 square feet) and the addition of Boeing 737 operations
  • Phase Four: Ground service equipment maintenance building ( 4,000 square feet) and two t-hangar complexes ( 60,000 square feet)[5]

In 2022, local government officials said that it appeared that KaiserAir was "not moving forward" with their originally proposed project.[6]

Accidents and incidents

  • On February 25, 2021, a private Mooney M20 aircraft crashed onto a car on a nearby freeway overpass. No one was injured, but both the airplane and the car suffered substantial damage.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Form 5010 for LVK PDF, effective September 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ "List of NPIAS Airports" (PDF). FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. 21 October 2016. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "History of the Livermore Airport". Archived from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  4. ↑ "Airport Administration Building OK'd in Livermore". 14 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Meeting Minutes | Livermore Airport Citizen's Group". Livermore Airport Noise. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  6. ↑ Cierra Bailey (25 March 2022). "KaiserAir unlikely to proceed with proposed move to Livermore Airport". Pleasanton Weekly. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  7. ↑ Jessica Schladebeck (February 25, 2021). "Plane strikes car while making emergency landing on California overpass". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2022-12-30.


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