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Airport information for Burke Lakefront Airport Country: United States Location: Cleveland Coordinates: 41.30.40N / 081.41.20W IATA Code: BKL Timezone: GMT -5 Direct flights form Burke Lakefront Airport Direct flights to Burke Lakefront Airport Find connecting flights to Burke Lakefront Airport Find connecting flights from Burke Lakefront Airport

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Coordinates: 41°31′03″N 081°41′00″W/41.5175°N 81.683333°W/41.5175; -81.683333

Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport (IATA: BKL, ICAO: KBKL, FAA LID: BKL) is a public airport located on the shore of Lake Erie, in the northeast division of business district Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It separate as a civil aviation airport and is an FAA denominated backup man to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), which is Greater Cleveland's primary airport. In 2007, ground on FAA informations of non-military action, BKL was the 6th busiest airport in the province of Ohio. It is named after former Cleveland city manager and U.S. senator Thomas A. Burke.

The airport is owned and functioned by the town of Cleveland, which also functions Hopkins. It assists a turning figure of corporate jet plane and air cab services. Burke dealt 20,618 air cab functioning in 2005, and 23,370 in 2006. BKL dealt 18,595 air cab functioning in the 1st 10 calendar month of 2007. Burke Lakefront deals about 87,000 functioning per yr (mean of 2000 to 2006). (60,013 for the 1st 10 calendar month of 2007).

Recent commercial air service

Since late 2006, there has been no commercial air service at the airport. The airline Destination One, briefly provided scheduled charter service between BKL and airports near the business district of Detroit and Cincinnati, as good as to Hilton Head, SC. However, this service was short-lived. Wright Airlines was ground at BKL in the 1970s and 1980s, before declaring failure. In 1979, Midway Airlines functioned service from BKL to MDW in Chicago, before going their functioning to Hopkins.

Events

The airport was the location of the one-year Grand Prix of Cleveland, last held in 2007, a Champ Car speed which claimed the airport to be briefly close down. Burke Lakefront Airport was the only airport in the land to host such a major auto speed which claimed careful upkeep of the landing track in say to hold them safe for auto at high velocities. The airport is also the location of the one-year Cleveland National Air Show, normally held over the Labor Day weekend.

Criticism

Critics of Burke Lakefront Airport postulate that the district on which the installation sit down is far to a fault valuable for the intention of civil aviation, corporate air cab services, and assisting as a stand-in airport for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The district, turn up direct on Cleveland's lakefront, is able to, critics province, be evolved into a new business organisation and housing land. However, such critics compare the want of commercial service at BKL with an airport that is not essential to the district. If the airport were closed, many of the 80,000 one-year functioning at BKL would switch to CLE, doing over-crowding and hold up at the district's primary airport and therefore impacting all service to the area . Furthermore, as air traffic is spreading out each yr in the US, BKL is a prime quantity airport for new commercial service assisting Downtown Cleveland and the district.

Major modifies to the lakefront and BKL are on the immediate skyline, as Mayor Frank Jackson denoted that Burke Lakefront Airport will stay an airport and a development programme is being set.

Accidents

In early 2008 there was a little twin-engined aircraft that crashed shortly after takeoff into Lake Erie. The 68-year-old airplane pilot was bruited to have had a heart assail as he do a turn to Niagara Falls.

Facilities and aircraft

Facilities

Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport covers an area  of 450 acres (182 ha) which incorporates 2 asphalt paved landing track: 6L/24R measure out 6,198 x 150 foot (1,889 x 46 m) and 6R/24L measure out 5,197 x 100 foot (1,584 x 30 m). The field is full capable of care 737's, 757s, A320's, and little aircraft for normal functioning.

The airport has 2 fixed-base operators on the dry land.

For the 12-month time period finish December 31, 2004, the airport had 84,101 aircraft functioning, an mean of 230 per solar day: 76% civil aviation, 24% air cab, 1% armed forces and <1% scheduled commercial.

Aircraft

There are 72 aircraft ground at this airport: 53% single-engine, 18% multi-engine, 18% eggbeater and 11% jet plane.

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