Bentonville Municipal Airport

Bentonville Municipal Airport (ICAO: KVBT, FAA LID: VBT) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Bentonville, a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.[1] It is also known as Louise M. Thaden Field[1] or Louise Thaden Field, a name it was given in 1951 to honor Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905–1979), an aviation pioneer from Bentonville.[2]

Bentonville Municipal Airport

Louise M. Thaden Field
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Bentonville
ServesBentonville, Arkansas
Elevation AMSL1,296 ft / 395 m
Coordinates36°20′45″N 094°13′10″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 4,082 1,244 Asphalt
17/35 2,400 732 Turf
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations18,100
Based aircraft40

This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorizes it as a general aviation facility.[3] Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned VBT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Bentonville Municipal Airport covers an area of 140 acres (57 ha) at an elevation of 1,296 feet (395 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 18/36 with a surface measuring 4,426 by 65 feet (1,349 x 20 m)[1] and one turf runway measuring 2,400 by 75 feet (732 x 23 m) designated 17/35, available for use in day VFR conditions.[5]

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2015, the airport had 32,300 aircraft operations, an average of 88 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military. At that time there were 77 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 7.8% multi-engine and 2.6% helicopter.[1]

In 2018 a major update of the airport was completed, including a new flight center, public meeting rooms, a museum, and a restaurant, "Louise", added to the northern border with Lake Bentonville.[6][7]

References
  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for VBT PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 11 February 2010.
  2. "Who Is Louise Thaden?". Summit Aviation. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 4 Mar 2010.
  3. National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 1 (PDF, 1.33 MB) Archived August 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 Oct 2008.
  4. "Bentonville Municipal Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: KVBT, FAA: VBT)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 4 Mar 2010.
  5. "Info for Pilots, Turf Runway Operations -- Summit Aviation". Summit Aviation. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  6. "Bentonville flight center to include restaurant, exhibit space". Arkansas Online. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  7. "Bentonville's Thaden Field to become 'destination airport' - Talk Business & Politics". Talk Business & Politics. 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
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