Front Range Airport (ICAO: KFTG, FAA LID: FTG) is a public airport located on the northeastern edge of Aurora, Colorado, 19 miles (31 km) east of the city's central business district and three miles (5 km) southeast of Denver International Airport. It is owned by the Front Range Airport Authority, and serves the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. The postal designation of Watkins, a nearby unincorporated community, appears in the airport's mailing address.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Front Range Airport is assigned FTG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Front Range is a small general aviation airport, although increased demand has warranted a number of expansion programs in recent years. Formerly, it was a non-towered airport without air traffic control (ATC) services; a control tower opened in 2005 along with full ATC services. Currently, Front Range airport serves as the base of a few flying schools, flight clubs and maintenance services. Due to its location on the flat plains of eastern Colorado, as well as generally cheaper aircraft rental rates, it is a very popular airport for both flight training and recreational flights. The cargo airline Sundance Air is based at the airport. It is also popular among owners and pilots of kit-built aircraft, and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has a very strong presence at Front Range, which occasionally hosts the EAA Rocky Mountain Fly-In. Aviation Technology Group (ATG) had planned to build the ATG Javelin at the airport in 2009, but the company has since gone out of business. The State of Colorado has applied to the FAA to certify Front Range as a spaceport.
Read more about Front Range Airport: Facilities and Aircraft, Spaceport Proposal
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