ERNEST A. LOVE FIELD

'Prescott Municipal Airport' , also known as 'Ernest A. Love Field'^[1] (not to be confused with Dallas Love Field), is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) north of the central business district of Prescott, a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Love Field is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by one commercial airline. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Most of the traffic at PRC is training flights from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 5,020 commercial passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 3,780 enplanements in 2006.^[2] According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Ernest A. Love Field is classified as ''commercial service - non-primary'' because it has between 2,500 and 10,000 passenger boardings per year.^[3]
Once again the FAA has selected Mesa Airlines to take over the flights from Great Lakes Airlines starting in July.^[4] Mesa Airlines will offer three flights daily, two to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, and the third to a new destination, Las Vegas McCarran International Airport.

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Facilities and aircraft

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Facilities and aircraft

Ernest A. Love Field covers an area of 760 acres (308 ha) which contains three asphalt paved runways: 3R/21L measuring 7,550 x 150 ft. (2,301 x 46 m), 12/30 at 4,408 x 75 ft. (1,344 x 23 m) and 3L/21R is 4,846 x 60 ft. (1,477 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 272,855 aircraft operations, an average of 747 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi, <1% scheduled commercial (1) and <1% military. There are 340 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single engine, 8% multi-engine, 1% jet aircraft, 3% helicopters and <1% ultralights.

Airlines and destinations

★ Great Lakes Airlines (Kingman, Phoenix) [ends September 30]

★ US Airways

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★ US Airways Express operated by Air Midwest (Las Vegas, Kingman, Phoenix) [begins October 1]

References

1. Photo of sign by airport entrance with ''Prescott Municipal Airport'' in large text above ''Ernest A. Love Field'' in small text
2. FAA Passenger Boarding Data
3. FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
4. Mesa Air returns to Prescott

External links

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★ Prescott Municipal Airport at City of Prescott web site

★ Ernest A. Love Field at Arizona DOT web site

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★ Essential Air Service documents (Docket Number 1899) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:

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★ Order 2007-6-10: Selects Mesa Air Group, d/b/a Air Midwest, to provide EAS for two years

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★ Order 2007-3-17: Request for proposals to provide EAS for two years beginning July 1, 2007

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★ Order 2005-3-16: Selects Great Lakes Aviation to provide EAS for two years ending June 30, 2007