Laredo International Airport

Laredo International Airport
USGS aerial image, 2006
IATA: LRD ICAO: KLRD FAA LID: LRD
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Laredo
Serves	Laredo, Texas
Elevation AMSL	508 ft / 155 m
Coordinates	27°32′38″N 99°27′42″W / 27.54389°N 99.46167°W / 27.54389; -99.46167Coordinates: 27°32′38″N 99°27′42″W / 27.54389°N 99.46167°W / 27.54389; -99.46167
Website	CityOfLaredo.com/...
Map
LRD Location within Texas
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 5,928 1,807 Concrete 17L/35R 8,236 2,510 Concrete 17R/35L 8,743 2,665 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 116,565 Flight operations 57,744
Sources: airport website and FAA

Laredo International Airport (IATA: LRD, ICAO: KLRD, FAA LID: LRD) is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Laredo, a city in Webb County, Texas, United States.

The airport is served by three commercial airlines with flights to Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas and Orlando. In the twelve months ending December 2013, LRD had 102,856 passengers. In 2012, LRD totaled 460,000,612 pounds of cargo.

The Laredo International Airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as Laredo Army Airfield, and by the United States Air Force as Laredo Air Force Base during the Cold War as a pilot training base with T-33 Shooting Star and later T-37 Tweet and T-38 Talon aircraft. The military presence ended in December 1973 as part of a nationwide defense cutback following the end of the Vietnam War.