Boulder Municipal
BDU · KBDU · Boulder, Colorado · Boulder County · map
Boulder Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Boulder, 3 miles northeast of Boulder, Colorado, 5,288 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 4,100 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BDU · ICAO KBDU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Boulder
- Elevation
- 5,288 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,012 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cheyenne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,100 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08G/26G | 4,100 × 20 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair |
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 200 ft, 3,900 ft available for landing, trees 10 ft high 278 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, 3,900 ft available for landing
- Runway 08G: trees 56 ft high 806 ft from the end
- Runway 26G: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Bdu and aWOS-3 | 118.825 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 303-541-9540.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Boulder from the FAA register
221 aircraft are registered to owners in Boulder, Colorado: 142 piston singles, 21 gliders, 14 piston twins, 13 turboprops, 13 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate PAPI runway 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 8/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL self serve available H24.
- Full service
- Glider operations 60 feet parl to runway.
- Landing area undefined; glider operations only; 197 feet sepn centerline to centerline.
- 3000 feet an X 20 feet chip and seal west end; 1100 feet grass east end.
- Departure turn below 512 feet NA. 40-60 feet trees result in 27 degrees obstruction clnc slope to dthr. Runway 08 calm wind runway.
- Durg west wind exp svr turb. 300 feet safety area outlined with red reflectors; 130 feet dropoff east of marked area.
- Runway 08 10 feet tree, dist 277 feet, 14 feet R, approach slp 47:1 displaced thld.
- 25 - 55 feet trees outline hayden lake 200 feet from runway 08G threshold; hayden lake 250 feet from runway 8 and 8G threshold.
- Paja and water fowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Pattern altitude: runway 08/26 pattern altitude 1012 feet above ground level.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.