Wendover Airport
Wendover Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Wendover, a city on the western edge of Tooele County, Utah, United States, near the border with Nevada.
Description
The airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 46,264 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 50,360 enplanements in 2009, and 50,734 in 2010. In 2019, the last full year of charter service by Swift Air, ENV logged 52,748 passenger boardings before dropping to 10,824 in 2020, after which charter service ceased.History
Military
The Wendover Airport is located at the site of the former Wendover Air Force Base, which ceased most military operations in the mid-1960s.Civilian
Wendover AAF was declared surplus in 1976 and on June 16 most of the field, including the water system, was turned over to Wendover, Utah, as a municipal airport. Beginning in 1980, the 4440th Tactical Fighter Training Group at Nellis AFB, Nevada, used the field for exercises, but they were discontinued after 1986. In the late 1990s the airport's ownership was transferred from the city of Wendover to Tooele County.Still-extant facilities include three paved runways, numerous ramps, taxiways, dispersal pads, all of the original hangars, and 75 other World War II–era buildings.
Several flying scenes for the 1997 movie Con Air were filmed at Wendover, using a Fairchild C-123K Provider. A non-profit group, Historic Wendover Airfield, is attempting to restore the historic elements of the field.
The airport received a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to resurface its runways in September 2002. As a result of a federal grant and donations by local casinos the airport acquired a new fire truck in 2013.
Facilities and aircraft
Wendover Airport covers an area of 1,960 acres at an elevation of 4,237 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 8/26 is 10,002 by 150 feet and 12/30 is 8,002 by 100 feet.For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2023, the airport had 4,586 aircraft operations, an average of 88 per week: 83% general aviation, and 18% military. At that time there were 3 aircraft based at this airport: 2 jet and 1 single-engine. The airport is an uncontrolled airport that has no control tower.