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La Porte Municipal Airport
La Porte Municipal Airport
	IATA: LPO; ICAO: KPPO; FAA LID: PPO;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	La Porte Airport Authority
Serves	La Porte, Indiana
Opened	April 1940
Elevation AMSL	812 ft / 247 m
Map
	PPO Location of airport in Indiana PPO PPO (the United States)
Runways
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations
Aircraft operations	15,416
Based aircraft	78
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

41°34′21″N 086°44′04″W / 41.57250°N 86.73444°W / 41.57250; -86.73444

La Porte Municipal Airport (IATA: LPO, ICAO: KPPO, FAA LID: PPO) is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of La Porte, a city in La Porte County, Indiana, United States.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, La Porte Municipal Airport is assigned PPO by the FAA and LPO by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KPPO.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

La Porte Municipal Airport covers an area of 188 acres (76 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 2/20 at 5,000 x 75 ft (1,524 x 23 m) and 14/32 measuring 2,800 x 60 ft (853 x 18 m).^[2]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 15,416 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% air taxi. There are 78 aircraft based at this airport: 91% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 4% jet.^[2]