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La Junta Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of La Junta, Colorado | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 3 miles north of La Junta, Colorado | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,229 ft / 1,289 m | ||||||||||||||
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La Junta Municipal Airport (IATA: LHX, ICAO: KLHX) is a public access airport located 3 miles north of La Junta, Colorado.
It is owned and operated by the city of La Junta, Colorado.
History
The airport was opened in April 1940 as Lu Janta Army Air Field and was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a training base. At the end of the war the airfield was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use.
See Also
References
- AirNav.Com - La Junta Municipal Airport (KLHX)
- Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1575100517
External Links
- Resources for this airport:
- AirNav airport information for KLHXL
- ASN accident history for LHXL
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for KLHXL
- FAA current LHXL delay information