| Van Nuys Airport |
Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley within the Los Angeles city limits. No commercial airlines fly into this airport. It is used by private, chartered, and small commercial aircraft. It is owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports. Van Nuys Airport is the world's busiest general aviation airport and the 18th busiest airport in the world. With just two parallel runways, Van Nuys Airport handled 448,681 aircraft movements in 2004 (averaging over 1200 operations a day) and in 2006 handled nearly 1,400 operations a day. By comparison, Los Angeles International Airport (with four runways and exceptional amounts of commercial traffic) has roughly 1700 operations a day. Hollywood celebrities, politicians and business executives are known to use this airport because it offers them convenience and anonymity. In 2005, a film documenting the history of Van Nuys Airport was released under the name "One Six Right," named after the most popular runway at the airport. |
