This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "North Las Vegas Airport" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(August 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

North Las Vegas Airport
View from an SR22 aircraft over North Las Vegas Airport, March 2013
IATA:VGT ICAO:KVGT FAALID:VGT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Clark County Commission
Operator	Clark County Department of Aviation
Serves	Las Vegas
Location	North Las Vegas, Nevada,U.S.
Opened	December 7, 1941; 83 years ago (1941-12-07)
Elevation AMSL	2,205 ft / 672 m
Coordinates	36°12′38″N115°11′40″W / 36.21056°N 115.19444°W /36.21056; -115.19444
Website	www.vgt.aero
Maps
VGT/KVGT/VGT Location of airport in Nevada / United States Show map of Nevada VGT/KVGT/VGT VGT/KVGT/VGT (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 7/25 5,005 1,525 Asphalt 12R/30L 5,001 1,524 Asphalt 12L/30R 4,203 1,281 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Aircraft operations 176,320 Based aircraft 492
Source:Federal Aviation Administration[1]

North Las Vegas Airport (IATA:VGT,ICAO:KVGT,FAALID:VGT) is a public-use airport 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of downtownLas Vegas inNorth Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1] It is owned by theClark County Commission and operated by theClark County Department of Aviation.

Known locally asNorthtown, it is the second–busiest public use government airport in the Las Vegas area and the third busiest inNevada. It is the primary airport in the Las Vegas area for general aviation and scenic tours, allowingHarry Reid International Airport to focus on airline flights. North Las Vegas offered limited regional airline service byGrand Canyon Scenic Airlines in the early 2000s. Many helicopter operators, including theLas Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, use the airport.

The airport opened on December 7, 1941, asSky Haven Airport. Due to theattack on Pearl Harbor which occurred the same day, two of the airport's co-founders, Verald "Bud" Barrett and J. M. Murphy, left to enlist in the Army Air Corps, leaving the third co-founder, Florence Murphy, to run the airport until 1945.^[2]

During an expansion project at the airport, Sky Rider Motel opened in the early 1960s featuring aswimming pool shaped like an airplane.^[2]

In 1968,Hughes Tool Company purchased the airport, then calledNorth Las Vegas Air Terminal.^[2]

From the latter 1970's through the 1990's,Las Vegas Airlines provided scheduled flights to theGrand Canyon National Park airport.

From 2003 through 2006Scenic Airlines operated commercial flights to the Grand Canyon. Service to Ely and Elko, Nevada and to Merced and Visalia, California was also flown under the federally subsidizedEssential Air Service program.^[3]

North Las Vegas Airport covers 920acres (370 ha) at anelevation of 2,205 feet (672 m). It has threeasphaltrunways: 7/25 is 5,005 by 75 feet (1,525 x 23 m), 12R/30L is 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m), and 12L/30R is 4,203 by 75 feet (1,281 x 23 m).^[1]

In the year ending August 31, 2019, the airport averaged 483 aircraft operations per day, or just over 176,000 per year: 59% localgeneral aviation, 29% transient general aviation, 11%air taxi and <1% of both commercial andmilitary.^[4] As of August, 2015, there were 536 aircraft based at this airport: 76% single-engine, 14% multi-engine, 4% jet, 6%helicopter and <1%ultralight.^[5]

• On August 30, 1978, Las Vegas Airlines Flight 44, aPiper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain (N44LV), crashed inVFR conditions shortly after takeoff from runway 25. Flight 44 was a charter flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, toSanta Ana, California, with nine Australian tourists and a pilot on board. After liftoff following a longer-than-normal ground roll, the aircraft pitched nose up, climbed steeply to about 400 ft above the ground, stalled, reversed course, and crashed 1,150 ft beyond and 650 ft to the right of the runway. All persons on board the aircraft were killed. TheNational Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was a backed out elevator down-stop bolt that limited down elevator travel and made it impossible for the pilot to prevent a pitchup and stall after takeoff.^[6][7][8]
• On January 2, 2013, a twin-enginePiper Aerostar crashed and burst into flames at North Las Vegas Airport after a hard landing. The two occupants escaped uninjured.^[9]
• On July 17, 2022, twosingle-engine aircraft – aPiper PA-46 Malibu and aCessna 172 – collided in mid-air in the traffic pattern at the airport. Two people were onboard each aircraft, and all four died. Preliminary reports indicate that the Piper was preparing to land when it hit the 172, and ADSB data shows that the Malibu overshot its final approach course, encroaching on the path of the Cessna, which was landing on a parallel runway.^[10][11][12]

• List of airports in Nevada

• North Las Vegas Airport – official website
• "Diagram of North Las Vegas Airport (VGT)"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2012-02-13. fromNevada DOT
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective October 30, 2025
• FAA Terminal Procedures for VGT, effective October 30, 2025
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAAairport information for VGT
  • AirNavairport information for KVGT
  • ASNaccident history for VGT
  • FlightAwareairport information andlive flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations:current,past three days
  • SkyVectoraeronautical chart,Terminal Procedures

• Airports established in 1941
• Airports in Clark County, Nevada
• Buildings and structures in North Las Vegas, Nevada
• Transportation in the Las Vegas Valley

• Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
• CS1 maint: archived copy as title
• CS1: unfit URL
• Use American English from May 2025
• All Wikipedia articles written in American English
• Articles needing additional references from August 2019
• All articles needing additional references
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Coordinates on Wikidata