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Boulder City Municipal Airport (KBVU) is a general aviation field in Clark County, Nevada, roughly 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas and close to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. Owned by the Boulder City Municipality, it is best known as a base for scenic air tour operators flying fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters out to the Grand Canyon, and it sees a steady mix of training, charter and general aviation traffic.
Boulder City Municipal Airport lies just southwest of the city it serves, in Clark County, Nevada, and has been in operation since 1990 under ownership of the Boulder City Municipality. It has no scheduled airline service but is a significant base for air tour companies running sightseeing flights to the Grand Canyon, making it a busy and visually interesting field for a simulator pilot to fly into, set against the desert landscape near Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.
The airport sits about one nautical mile southwest of the central business district of Boulder City, Nevada, itself around 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The surrounding area is dominated by desert terrain, with Hoover Dam and Lake Mead only a short distance away, giving the field a strong local visual character.
Boulder City Municipal has three physical runways, all hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 09/27 is the longest at 4,799 feet, runway 15/33 is 3,839 feet, and a shorter parallel strip, 09L/27R, measures 2,152 feet. The field lies at an elevation of 2,136 feet and there is no ILS approach available.
The current airport opened on 2 July 1990, replacing the earlier Boulder City Airport, which had operated from 1933 into the 1980s from a site further north, closer to U.S. Route 93. On 19 March 2009, the Boulder City Aerocenter, a new 30,000 square foot terminal, opened to service Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters, Grand Canyon Airlines and Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines, cementing the field's role as a hub for Grand Canyon air tourism.
The airport remains a base for air charter companies offering sightseeing tours of the Grand Canyon using both fixed-wing light aircraft and helicopters, with operators including Grand Canyon Airlines and its sister company Grand Canyon Scenic Airlines, Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters, Las Vegas Helicopters and 5 Star Helicopter Tours; typical destinations include Grand Canyon National Park Airport, Grand Canyon West Airport and Page Municipal Airport. There is no scheduled airline service. For the year ending 18 May 2023 the field recorded about 44,251 aircraft operations, roughly 122 per day, split between air taxi and general aviation traffic with a small military share, and it based 265 aircraft, mostly single-engine types alongside helicopters, multi-engine aircraft, ultralights, a handful of military aircraft and a glider.
