Airport

Overview

The Albert Lea Municipal Airport is a public-use general aviation airport owned and operated by the City of Albert Lea. It originated as a private field in the 1920s on the west side of the city. It moved to its current location on the north side of Albert Lea in the 1950s, where it is conveniently located near the interchange of I-35 and I-90.

In 2018, the city built a 4,500-square-foot arrival/departure building connected to a steel hangar measuring 80 by 80 feet. The facility features a flexible-use space with a passenger waiting area, vending room, pilots’ lounge, shower, restrooms and conference room. The airport also has a single fixed base operator that provides a variety of services to the traveling public, including aviation fuel, aircraft rental, maintenance, restoration and sales. In addition, the arrival/departure building houses a local flight school.

The existing airfield consists of consists of two asphalt runways:

The northwest-southeast runway (17/35) is served by a parallel taxiway. This runway is 5,000 feet long by 100 feet wide. It has a GPS/LPV approach with weather minimums of 250 feet and 0.75-mile visibility as well as Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range, Medium Intensity Runway Lights, Runway End Identifier Lights, and a precision approach path indicator.

The southwest-northeast runway (5/23) is 2,900 feet long by 75 feet wide. It has omni-directional approach lights, but no instrument approach, runway lighting or visual navigational aids.