Columbus Municipal Airport (Nebraska)

Columbus Municipal Airport
Columbus Municipal Airport
	IATA: OLU; ICAO: KOLU; FAA LID: OLU;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Columbus Airport Authority
Serves	Columbus, Nebraska
Elevation AMSL	1,447 ft / 441 m
Runways
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/26/2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 7/26/2023)	8,000
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

41°26′53″N 097°20′34″W / 41.44806°N 97.34278°W / 41.44806; -97.34278

Columbus Municipal Airport (IATA: OLU, ICAO: KOLU, FAA LID: OLU) is a mile (2 km) northeast of Columbus, in Platte County, Nebraska. It is owned by the Columbus Airport Authority;^[1] it has 100LL and JetA fuel for sale.

The first airline flights were Mid-West Airlines Cessna 190s in 1950–51. Frontier DC-3s arrived in 1965; its last Convair 580 left in 1979.

Facilities

The airport covers 602 acres (244 ha), and has two runways: 14/32 is 6,801 x 100 ft (2,073 x 30 m) concrete and 2/20 is 4,135 x 150 ft (1,260 x 46 m) turf.

In the year ending July 26, 2023, the airport had 8,000 aircraft operations, average 22 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military.^[1]