Sherman Army Airfield

Sherman Army Airfield Sherman Air Force Base
Located near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Sherman Army Airfield, 2006
Coordinates	39°22′04″N 094°55′04″W / 39.36778°N 94.91778°W / 39.36778; -94.91778 (Sherman AAF)
Type	Military/Civil Airfield
Site information
Owner	United States Army
Site history
Built	1926
In use	1926-Present

Airfield information
IATA: FLV ICAO: KFLV FAA LID: FLV
Summary
Airport type	Military / Public
Elevation AMSL	772 ft / 235 m
Coordinates	39°22′04″N 094°55′04″W / 39.36778°N 94.91778°W / 39.36778; -94.91778Coordinates: 39°22′04″N 094°55′04″W / 39.36778°N 94.91778°W / 39.36778; -94.91778
Map
KFLV Location of Sherman Army Airfield
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 15/33 5,905 1,800 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 20,400 Based aircraft 31
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Sherman Army Airfield (IATA: FLV, ICAO: KFLV) is an airport located at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Although the airport is within the confines of a United States Army Post, it has agreement with the city of Leavenworth, Kansas to permit civilian use at all hours.

It derives its codes from Fort Leavenworth. While many facilities at Fort Leavenworth are named for the Command and General Staff College founder William Tecumseh Sherman the airfield is actually named for an early Army Aviation pioneer Major William Carrington Sherman (1888–1927) who died in 1927 at Ft Leavenworth while there as an instructor. William Sherman wrote the Army's first airplane tactics manual (in 1921) -- "Air Tactics" as well as several other army airplane manuals and histories.

Sherman AAF covers an area of 234 acres (95 ha) at an elevation of 772 feet (235 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33 with an asphalt/concrete surface measuring is 5,905 by 100 feet (1,800 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2008, the airport had 20,400 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day: 94% general aviation and 6% military. At that time there were 31 aircraft based at this airport: 97% single-engine and 3% multi-engine.

From its beginning, the primary and almost exclusive function of Sherman Army Airfield at Fort Leavenworth was to provide flying facilities for the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Most of its use was for proficiency flights by pilots assigned to the school as students or instructors.