Colorado Springs Airport

City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport
IATA: COS – ICAO: KCOS – FAA LID: COS
– WMO: 72466
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner/Operator City of Colorado Springs
Serves Colorado Springs, Colorado
Elevation AMSL 6,187 ft / 1,886 m
Coordinates 38°48′21″N 104°42′03″W / 38.80583°N 104.70083°W / 38.80583; -104.70083Coordinates: 38°48′21″N 104°42′03″W / 38.80583°N 104.70083°W / 38.80583; -104.70083
Website Colorado Springs Airport
Maps

FAA airport diagram
COS
COS

Location of airport in Colorado/United States

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17L/35R 13,501 4,115 Concrete
17R/35L 11,022 3,360 Asphalt
13/31 8,269 2,520 Asphalt
Statistics (2013)
Aircraft operations 138,326
Based aircraft 292
Sources: airport web site[1] and FAA[2]

City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport[2] (IATA: COS, ICAO: KCOS, FAA LID: COS) (also known as Colorado Springs Airport[1]) is a city-owned public civil-military airport 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado.[2] It is the second busiest airport in the state. Peterson Air Force Base, which is located on the north side of runway 13/31, is a tenant of the airport.

History

Colorado Springs Airport

Former terminal, now Peterson Air & Space Museum
Nearest city Colorado Springs, Colorado
Area 8.3 acres (3.4 ha)
Built 1942
Architectural style Art Deco, Moderne
NRHP Reference # 90001296[3]
Added to NRHP November 15, 1996
Busy morning ramp
Inside the Mortgage Solutions Financial Premier Lounge.

In 1927 the airport opened on 640 acres (260 ha) 7 miles (11 km) east of the city, with two gravel runways. In the late 1930s the first scheduled airline flight went from El Paso, Texas, through Pueblo, Colorado Springs, to Denver and back. The first municipal terminal was built in 1942 in an art deco style. Soon after the terminal was built the field was taken over by the military in the months preceding World War II. After the war, the city regained control.

In 1966 a new terminal was built on the west side of the runways, just east of Powers Boulevard. This terminal expanded by the 1980s, with a six gate addition. By 1991 the airport had three 150-foot (46 m) wide runways, one 13,501 feet (4,115 m) long, making it the longest runway in Colorado until 16R/34L, a 16,000-foot (4,900 m) runway, opened at Denver International Airport in September 2003. In 1991 the city approved a new terminal, two miles east of the former terminal, in the south-center part of the airport. The 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m2) terminal opened on October 22, 1994 with 12 gates; it was designed by the Van Sant Group and cost $140 million.[4] In the 1990s a second, 5-gate concourse was added on the east side of the main terminal.

Operations

Through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the airport tried to expand service. The largest number of passengers was nearly 5 million in 1996 when now-defunct Western Pacific Airlines had a hub at COS (they moved it to Denver International Airport in late 1996). Their timetable for 15 June shows 33 daily departures to 20 airports between the west coast and Newark and Washington Dulles. (All their flights left from or landed at COS.)

Colorado Springs has non-stop flights to 10 U.S. cities.

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers 7,200 acres (2,900 ha) and has three paved runways: 17L/35R, 13,501 x 150 ft (4,115 x 46 m) long, 17R/35L, 11,022 x 150 ft (3,360 x 46 m) and 13/31, 8,269 x 150 ft (2,520 x 46 m).[2]

Reached via Milton Proby Parkway, the terminal consists of two concourses. However, only one, the larger concourse housing gates 1–12, has ever been put to commercial use; the second concourse (called the Western Pacific Airlines concourse) contains gates 14–18 (there is no gate 13.), and is now mainly used for meetings. Access between the concourses requires leaving the secure area, walking through the main terminal and down a long hallway.

Since September 2011 the airport terminal has been under renovation, that includes reconstruction of the TSA checkpoint to support full body scanners, expansion of office space behind the ticket counters, and new facilities for automated baggage screening.

Repairs to runway 17L/35R, first scheduled for 2011, but got delayed to spring 2012 by the FAA shutdown.

In the year ending September 30, 2013 the airport had 138,326 aircraft operations, an average of 378 per day: 58% general aviation, 18% air taxi, 14% scheduled commercial and 11% military. 292 aircraft were then based at the airport: 50% single-engine, 22% multi-engine, 12% jet, 1% helicopter and 16% military.[2]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Alaska Airlines
operated by SkyWest Airlines 		Seattle/Tacoma
Allegiant Air Las Vegas, Phoenix/Mesa
American Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth
American Eagle Dallas/Fort Worth
Delta Air Lines Atlanta
Delta Connection Salt Lake City
Frontier Airlines Las Vegas, Orlando, Phoenix–Sky Harbor
United Express Chicago–O'Hare, Denver, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest domestic routes from COS (Jul 2015 – Jun 2016)[5]
Rank City Passengers Carriers
1 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas 170,000 American
2 Denver, Colorado 143,000 United
3 Houston–Intercontinental, Texas 57,000 United
4 Chicago–O'Hare, Illinois 56,000 United
5 Atlanta, Georgia 47,000 Delta
6 Los Angeles, California 32,000 United
7 Salt Lake City, Utah 30,000 Delta
8 Las Vegas, Nevada 28,000 Allegiant, Frontier
9 Seattle/Tacoma, Washington 21,000 Alaska
10 Phoenix/Mesa, Arizona 13,000 Allegiant

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Colorado Springs Airport, official web site
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Master Record for COS (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2014-03-20
  3. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ "Colorado Springs Airport -". Springs Gov.
  5. ↑ | BTS | Transtats. transtats.bts.gov. Retrieved in September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Unruly passenger charged in AirTran incident". CNN. January 12, 2010.

External links

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