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Harry Reid International Airport ( IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is an international airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located five miles (8 km; 4 nmi) south of downtown Las Vegas in the unincorporated area of Paradise and covers 2,800 acres (4.4 sq mi; 11.3 km 2) of land.
The Airport is intended to provide long-term aviation capacity for the Las Vegas metropolitan area, primarily serving domestic, international, charter, and cargo flights. The new airport site covers an area of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) and an additional 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of land that are set aside as a compatibility buffer, making the new ...
The April 1957 OAG shows 165 weekday departures from Atlanta, including 45 between 12:05 and 2:00 PM and 20 between 2:25 and 4:25 AM.) Chicago Midway had 414-weekday departures, including 48 between 12:00 and 2:00 PM. In 1957, Atlanta was the country's ninth-busiest airline airport by flight count and about the same by passenger count. [26]
On August 30, 1978, Las Vegas Airlines Flight 44, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain (N44LV), crashed in VFR conditions shortly after takeoff from runway 25. Flight 44 was a charter flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Santa Ana, California, with nine Australian tourists and a pilot on board. After liftoff following a longer-than-normal ground ...
Clark County, Nevada operates several airports : Harry Reid International Airport, Paradise ( IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS) - The primary commercial airport for the Las Vegas area. North Las Vegas Airport, North Las Vegas ( IATA: VGT, ICAO: KVGT)
This is a list of airports in Nevada (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The gunman was later apprehended and taken into custody. Until the situation was clarified and under control, a few terminals at the airport were evacuated, all inbound flights were diverted and all outbound flights were grounded until the airport began returning to normal operation at around 2:30 p.m. [283] [284]
Henderson Executive Airport. / 35.97278°N 115.13444°W / 35.97278; -115.13444. Henderson Executive Airport ( IATA: HSH, ICAO: KHND, FAA LID: HND) is a public use government airport located in Henderson, Nevada, 13 miles south of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada. The airport is owned by the Clark County Commission [ 1] and operated by ...