Chippewa Valley Regional Airport

Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (IATA: EAU, ICAO: KEAU, FAA LID: EAU) is a public-use airport in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is owned by Eau Claire County and is located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

It is the largest airport in the 30-county northern Wisconsin area, and serves primarily the Chippewa Valley region, operating on a budget approved by a commission equally representing the interests of Chippewa, Eau Claire and Dunn counties.

The airport is mainly used for general aviation and business travel; Eau Claire owned Menards corporation uses CVRA to base their fleet of aircraft to serve their stores throughout the Midwest. The airport is occasionally used as an alternative landing site for flights bound for Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. As of April 2010, only one commercial airline, United Airlines, provides service for CVRA to Chicago O'Hare International.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 18,762 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 13,192 enplanements in 2009, and 18,369 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year).

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