MidAmerica St. Louis Airport

MidAmerica St. Louis Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
Owner/OperatorSt. Clair County, United States Air Force
ServesGreater St. Louis
LocationBelleville, Illinois
Opened1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Time zoneUTC−06:00 (-6)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−05:00 (-5)
Elevation AMSL459 ft / 140 m
Coordinates38°32′43″N 089°50′07″W / 38.54528°N 89.83528°W / 38.54528; -89.83528
Websitewww.flymidamerica.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
FAA airport diagram
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14L/32R 10,000 3,048 Concrete
14R/32L 8,006 2,440 Asphalt/concrete
Statistics (2020)
Aircraft operations25,612
Based aircraft27
Passengers245,028

MidAmerica St. Louis Airport (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAA LID: BLV) is a public use airport next to Scott Air Force Base. It is located 18 nautical miles [nmi] (33 km; 21 mi) east of downtown St. Louis and 14 nmi (26 km; 16 mi) east of the central business district of Belleville in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States.[1] Opened in 1997, MidAmerica is the secondary domestic passenger airport for the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, after the larger St. Louis Lambert International Airport. It is a joint-use airport and is currently served by one scheduled commercial airline, Allegiant Air.

The airport had 152,278 passenger enplanements in 2018[2] (302,000 total passengers[3]), according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It was included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–21, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport because it surpassed 10,000 annual enplanements.[4] It is the fifth-busiest of the 12 commercial airports In Illinois.

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for BLV PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. effective June 15, 2023.
  2. ^ "Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) and All-Cargo Data for U.S. Airports". faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. December 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference BTS Stats was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "2017–2021 NPIAS Report". faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. September 30, 2016.