K61B
Boulder City Municipal Airport
VFR
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Name
Boulder City Municipal Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
K61B / BLD / KBVU
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- Region
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Timezone
7:23 pm (PST)
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Municipality
Boulder City
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Coordinates
35° 56′ 50″ N 114° 51′ 39″ W
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Elevation
2’201 ft (671 m MSL)
About Boulder City Municipal Airport
Boulder City Municipal Airport (IATA: BLD, ICAO: KBVU, FAA LID: BVU, formerly 61B) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 kms) southwest of the central business district of Boulder City, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. In operation since 1990, it is owned by the Boulder City Municipality.
According to the FAA, this airport had 300,553 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 194,838 in 2009, and 169,923 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Boulder City Municipal Airport is assigned BVU by the FAA and BLD by the IATA (which assigned BVU to Beluga Airport in Beluga, Alaska).