Boulder City Municipal Airport

Boulder City Municipal Airport (IATA: BLD, ICAO: KBVU, FAA LID: BVU, formerly 61B) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Boulder City, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. In operation since 1990, it is owned by Boulder City Municipality.

Boulder City Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerBoulder City Municipality
ServesBoulder City, Nevada
OpenedJuly 2, 1990 (1990-07-02)
Elevation AMSL2,203 ft / 671 m
Coordinates35°56′50″N 114°51′37″W
Websiteflybouldercity.com
Map
BLD
Location of airport in Nevada
BLD
BLD (the United States)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
9/27 5,103 1,555 Asphalt
15/33 3,852 1,174 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/18/2023)44,251
Based aircraft265

As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 300,553 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 194,838 in 2009, and 169,923 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Boulder City Municipal Airport is assigned BVU by the FAA and BLD by the IATA (which assigned BVU to Beluga Airport in Beluga, Alaska).

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