Van Nuys Airport | |||||||||||||||
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 Aerial view of Van Nuys Airport in 2021. | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Los Angeles World Airports | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Greater Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Van Nuys, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | December 17, 1928 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating base for | Aero | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 244 m / 802 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°12′35″N 118°29′24″W / 34.20972°N 118.49000°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | iflyvny.com | ||||||||||||||
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Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport in the Van Nuys neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. The airport is operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a branch of the Los Angeles city government, which also operates Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Van Nuys is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world, with the airport's two parallel runways averaging over 230,000 takeoffs and landings annually.
Van Nuys is home to news, medical transport, and tour helicopter operators, the air operations unit of the Los Angeles City Fire Department, and a maintenance base for Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power helicopters.
Originally opened as Metropolitan Airport on December 17, 1928, the airport became the Van Nuys Army Airfield during World War II, was renamed the San Fernando Valley Airport after the war, before taking its current name in 1957.
The airport is also home to LAWA's FlyAway terminal, where passengers bound for LAX can park and board buses that run nonstop between Van Nuys and LAX.
Van Nuys Airport is also known for implementing multiple noise abatement policies and strategies which includes awarding jet operators with the Friendly Flyer Award for reduced noise.
- ^ "History of Aircraft Operations". www.iflyvny.com. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ a b Cooper, Dr. Christine; Mitra, Dr. Somjita (November 2016). Van Nuys Airport Economic Impact Study (Report). Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Institute for Applied Economics.