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Pueblo Memorial Airport lies six miles east of Pueblo, Colorado, on the eastern fringe of the Rockies, and combines general aviation, limited airline service and a busy US Air Force flight-training operation on three long hard-surfaced runways. Its origins as a World War Two heavy-bomber training base are still visible in the scale of the field, and today it hosts the USAF's Initial Flight Training programme alongside civilian traffic.
Pueblo Memorial Airport is a city-owned public airport serving Pueblo, Colorado, used primarily for general aviation but also handling a small amount of scheduled airline service and a significant volume of US Air Force flight training. Its three substantial runways, a legacy of its wartime origins as a heavy-bomber training base, make it an interesting stop for simulator pilots wanting a taste of a large former military field that has settled into general aviation use.
The airport sits about six miles east of downtown Pueblo, Colorado, at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (COS) lies roughly 32 miles to the north. The field has an operating control tower and handles a mix of military, air taxi, transient and local general aviation traffic.
Pueblo Memorial has three physical runways. The primary runway, 08R/26L, is 10,443 feet long, hard-surfaced, lit and equipped with an ILS. Runway 17/35 is 8,272 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit. A shorter parallel runway, 08L/26R, is 4,655 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. Field elevation is 4,675 feet.
Approach/Departure is on 120.1 MHz, with ATIS on 125.25 MHz. The tower and common traffic advisory frequency both operate on 119.1 MHz, ground on 121.9 MHz, and Denver Radio is available on 122.2 MHz. Unicom is on 122.95 MHz. The primary runway, 08R/26L, is served by an ILS.
The FAA notes extensive US Air Force student pilot training in the vicinity of the airport Monday through Friday, reflecting the field's role as the base for the USAF Initial Flight Training programme, so pilots should expect a high volume of training traffic in the local area on weekdays.
The airport lies about six miles east of the city of Pueblo and can be identified by its position at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, with Colorado Springs Municipal Airport some 32 miles to the north as a wider area reference.
The airfield was built in 1941 as the Pueblo Army Air Base and served as an advanced flying school training B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator heavy bomber crews under the US Army Air Forces Second Air Force. Several bomb groups trained or were based there during the war, including the 94th, 302d, 351st, 381st, 400th, 466th, 469th and 471st Bombardment Groups. The base was transferred to the City of Pueblo in 1948. In the 1960s the main east-west runway, 8/26, was extended from 6,000 feet to 10,000 feet to accommodate jet aircraft. This wartime and airline history is preserved by the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum. Pueblo was also an early commercial aviation crossroads, served from the late 1920s through the 1970s by carriers including Colorado Airways, Western Air Express, Varney Speed Lines and Continental Airlines, flying aircraft such as the Lockheed Vega, Douglas DC-3, Convair 240/340 and Vickers Viscount.
Pueblo Memorial Airport is today home to the US Air Force's Initial Flight Training programme, run under the 12th Flying Training Wing at Randolph AFB and the 306th Flying Training Group at the US Air Force Academy, with Doss Aviation conducting flight training for between 1,300 and 1,700 USAF student pilots and combat systems officers annually. General aviation accounts for the great majority of movements, with smaller proportions of air taxi, airline and military traffic. As of 2017 the airport had 128 based aircraft, mostly single-engine types, alongside multi-engine aircraft, jets, a helicopter and a glider.