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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | St. Clair County, United States Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Greater St. Louis | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Belleville, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC−06:00 (-6) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−05:00 (-5) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 459 ft / 140 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°32′43″N 089°50′07″W / 38.54528°N 89.83528°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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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.
- ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for BLV PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. effective June 15, 2023.
- ^ "Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) and All-Cargo Data for U.S. Airports". faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. December 20, 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
BTS Statswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "2017–2021 NPIAS Report". faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. September 30, 2016.