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Lakeland Airport covers an area of 455 acres (184 ha) at an elevation of 1,630 feet (497 m) above mean sea level. The airport contains two asphalt paved runways: the primary runway 18/36 measuring 5,150 x 100 ft (1,570 x 30 m) with approved GPS and LOC approaches and the crosswind runway 10/28 measuring 3,602 x 75 ft (1,098 x 23 m) with approved GPS and NDB approaches. The Arbor Vitae NDB navaid, (ARV) frequency 221 kHz, is located on the field.
For the 12-month period ending August 10, 2023, the airport had 27,190 aircraft operations, an average of 74 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi and less than 1% military.
In August 2024, there were 36 aircraft based at this airport: 32 single-engine, 3 multi-engine and 1 jet.
Incidents
On May 25, 2003, at 1754 central daylight time, a Piper PA-31P Pressurized Navajo crashed and was destroyed by fire after takeoff from the airport's runway 36. All four occupants were killed.