Purdue University Airport

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Purdue University Airport
Aerial view, March 2007
IATA: LAF ICAO: KLAF FAA LID: LAF
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Purdue University
Serves	Lafayette, Indiana
Location	West Lafayette, Indiana
Elevation AMSL	606 ft / 185 m
Coordinates	40°24′44″N 86°56′13″W / 40.41222°N 86.93694°W / 40.41222; -86.93694
Website	www.purdue.edu/airport/
Maps
FAA Airport Diagram
LAF Location of airport in Tippecanoe County Show map of Tippecanoe County, Indiana LAF LAF (Indiana) Show map of Indiana LAF LAF (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 10/28 6,600 2,012 Asphalt 5/23 4,225 1,288 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2019) 117,727 Based aircraft (Dec. 2020) 84
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Purdue University Airport (IATA: LAF, ICAO: KLAF, FAA LID: LAF) is a public-use airport in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by Purdue University, and is 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southwest of the central business district of Lafayette, Indiana,^[1] in West Lafayette.

Because of the heavy traffic generated by Purdue University and its flight programs, Purdue University Airport is one of the busiest airports in Indiana, second only to the Indianapolis International Airport. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, the airport had 3,161 passenger boardings in calendar year 2022.^[2]

The airport is served by Southern Airways Express, with daily passenger flights to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

It is included in the FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–25, in which its FAA airport category is a regional general aviation facility.^[3]