Airlake Airport
LVN · KLVN · Minneapolis, Minnesota · Dakota County · map
Airlake Airport is a public-use airport, 22 miles south of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 960 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 4,099 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KLVN · observed 4:15 pm CDT (21:15 UTC), 7 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-northwest (290°) at 7 knots, gusting to 17
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 82°F (28°C), dew point 48°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.75 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KLVN 062115Z AUTO 29007G17KT 10SM CLR 28/09 A2975 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LVN · ICAO KLVN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 960 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; weekends, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1966
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,099 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, rr 31 ft high 560 ft from the end
- Runway 30: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 392 ft, 3,707 ft available for landing, road 26 ft high 408 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Clearance delivery | 118.95 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.7 | |
| Lvn and aWOS-3 | 118.0 | |
| Twolf and star | 126.95 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 952-469-5850.
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 Minneapolis from the FAA register
171 aircraft are registered to owners in Minneapolis, Minnesota: 87 piston singles, 38 airliners and large jets, 15 business jets, 10 piston twins, 7 gliders. 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 16 since 1982, 2 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 approach lights (MALSR) runway 30; runway end identifier lights runway 12; PAPI runway 12, 30; high-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 preset to low sunset to sunrise: incr intst and activate - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL self service fuel available 24 hours with credit card.
- Jet a fuel self serve not available.
- Repainted. Displacement on 'NW' end now taxiway.
- Runway 30 31:1 to displaced thld.
- Deer, birds and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Ultralight operations prohibited.
- Hangars 400 feet north from centerline in primary surface.
- Runway 30 dsgnd as calm wind runway.
- Voluntary noise abatement procedures in effect. See airport website for more information.
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.