Longville Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Longville

Longville, Minnesota

Longville is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 156 at the 2010 census. The city was named after its founder Jim Long. The town is roughly 4 hours north of the Twin Cities. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area...

, a city in Cass County

Cass County, Minnesota

Cass County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, the population was 28,567. Its county seat is Walker. A portion of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation is in the county.-Geography:...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States

United States

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.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.-ICAO...

 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, this airport is assigned XVG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Longville Municipal Airport covers an area of 55 acres (22.3 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 1,334 feet (407 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,781 by 75 feet (1,152 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2005, the airport had 6,725 aircraft operations, an average of 18 per day: 99.6% general aviation

General aviation

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 and 0.4% air taxi

Air taxi

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. At that time there were 8 aircraft based at this airport: 87.5% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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 and 12.5% multi-engine.

External links

• Aerial photo as of 3 May 1992 from USGS The National Map