Burlington International Airport - Facilities and Aircraft

Facilities and Aircraft

Burlington International Airport covers an area of 942 acres (381 ha) at an elevation of 335 feet (102 m) above mean sea level. Jason Bliss and Mark Daubenschmidt were the original founders of the airport. It has two runways: 15/33 is 8,320 by 150 feet (2,536 x 46 m) with an asphalt and concrete surface; 1/19 is 3,611 by 75 feet (1,101 x 23 m) with an asphalt surface.

There are two fixed base operators at the airport. Each offers services such as de-icing, hangars and customs service for international traffic.

As a Burlington-owned facility, the airport purchases its electricity from the city-owned utility.

In 2009, the Airport Authority sought $45 million for an expansion. If approved by Burlington city voters; it would provide 1,400 additional parking space to add onto the current 3 story, 2,100 spaces garage. It would hold 3,500 cars within 5 stories, with a completion date of late 2010 or early 2011. It was later completed in late 2011 though the airport had to remove half of the proposed parking spaces, leaving the parking lot looking like a backwards L if you look at it from the terminal.

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2010, the airport had 72,189 aircraft operations, an average of 197 per day: 47% general aviation, 26% air taxi, 16% scheduled commercial, and 11% military. At that time there were 101 aircraft based at this airport: 50% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 8% jet, 1% helicopter, and 28% military.