Colorado Springs Municipal Airport

City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport
IATA: COS ICAO: KCOS FAA LID: COS WMO: 72466
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	City of Colorado Springs
Serves	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Elevation AMSL	6,187 ft / 1,886 m
Coordinates	38°48′21″N 104°42′03″W / 38.80583°N 104.70083°W / 38.80583; -104.70083Coordinates: 38°48′21″N 104°42′03″W / 38.80583°N 104.70083°W / 38.80583; -104.70083
Website	Colorado Springs Airport
Maps
FAA airport diagram
COS Show map of Colorado COS Show map of the US Location of airport in Colorado / United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17L/35R 13,501 4,115 Concrete 17R/35L 11,022 3,360 Asphalt 13/31 8,269 2,520 Asphalt
Statistics (2013)
Aircraft operations 138,326 Based aircraft 292
Sources: airport web site and FAA

Colorado Springs Airport
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Former terminal, now Peterson Air & Space Museum
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Nearest city	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Area	8.3 acres (3.4 ha)
Built	1942
Architectural style	Art Deco, Moderne
NRHP Reference #	90001296
Added to NRHP	November 15, 1996

City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (IATA: COS, ICAO: KCOS, FAA LID: COS) (also known as Colorado Springs Airport) is a city-owned public civil-military airport 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado. It is the second busiest airport in the state. Peterson Air Force Base, which is located on the north side of runway 13/31, is a tenant of the airport.

In 1927 the airport opened on 640 acres (260 ha) 7 miles (11 km) east of the city, with two gravel runways. In the late 1930s the first scheduled airline flight went from El Paso, Texas, through Pueblo, Colorado Springs, to Denver and back. The first municipal terminal was built in 1942 in an art deco style. Soon after the terminal was built the field was taken over by the military in the months preceding World War II. After the war, the city regained control.

In 1966 a new terminal was built on the west side of the runways, just east of Powers Boulevard. This terminal expanded by the 1980s, with a six gate addition. By 1991 the airport had three 150-foot (46 m) wide runways, one 13,501 feet (4,115 m) long, making it the longest runway in Colorado until 16R/34L, a 16,000-foot (4,900 m) runway, opened at Denver International Airport in September 2003. In 1991 the city approved a new terminal, two miles east of the former terminal, in the south-center part of the airport. The 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m²) terminal opened on October 22, 1994 with 12 gates; it was designed by the Van Sant Group and cost $140 million. In the 1990s a second, 5-gate concourse was added on the east side of the main terminal.