Sierra Vista Municipal Airport
Sierra Vista Municipal Airport, a joint-use civil-military airport which shares facilities with Libby Army Airfield, is located on Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, a city and U.S. Army installation in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The airport has three runways and one helipad. It is mostly used for military aviation for the surrounding military base.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,304 passenger boardings in calendar year 2005 and 2,041 enplanements in 2006. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, Sierra Vista is a general aviation airport.
Libby Army Airfield is named in honor of Medal of Honor recipient George D. Libby.
Historical airline service
The airport has seen scheduled commercial service to Tucson and Phoenix by at least ten commuter air carriers from the 1960s through 2007:- Apache Airlines in the 1960s
- America West Airlines in the 1990s.
- Cochise Airlines in the 1970s
- Copper State Airlines 1980-1982
- Golden Airways 1981-1983
- Sierra Vista Aviation 1983-1987
- Golden Pacific Airlines 1987
- StatesWest Airlines 1989–1991. From mid-1990 through 1991 StatesWest operated as USAir Express on behalf of USAir.
- Mesa Airlines 1989–2002. From late 1992 through late 2002 Mesa operated as America West Express on behalf of America West Airlines.
- National Aircompany 2003-2004
- Great Lakes Airlines 2005–2007
Facilities and aircraft
Sierra Vista Municipal/Libby Army Airfield has three runways and one helipad:- Runway 8/26: 12,001 x 150 ft, surface: concrete
- Runway 12/30: 5,366 x 100 ft, surface: asphalt/concrete
- Runway 3/21: 4,285 x 75 ft, surface: asphalt/concrete
- Helipad H1: 40 x 40 ft, surface: asphalt