Valle Airport


Valle Airport, is a public airport located south of Valle, Arizona. Valle is the second location of Planes of Fame Air Museum.

Planes of Fame

The Valle branch of Planes of Fame opened in 1995 because the Chino collection had grown so greatly an additional facility was needed. 40 of the museum's 150 aircraft are kept in Valle, many of which are flyable. A Pacific Airlines Martin 404 and a Western Airlines Convair 240 are displayed alongside Arizona highway 64 30 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park.

Facilities and aircraft

Valle Airport covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway:
For the 12-month period ending April 20, 2009, the airport had 6,500 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 18 per day. At that time there were 6 aircraft based at this airport all single-engine.

Historical airline service

served Grand Canyon National Park via the Valle Airport during the late 1940s. According to a Trans World timetable which appeared in the October 1948 Official Airline Guide, Valle was a stop on transcontinental flights operated by TWA with routings of Philadelphia - Pittsburgh - Chicago - Kansas City - Wichita - Amarillo - Albuquerque - Winslow, AZ - Grand Canyon - Boulder City, NV - Las Vegas - Los Angeles and also Baltimore - Washington, D.C. - Columbus, OH - Dayton - Indianapolis - St. Louis - Kansas City - Topeka - Wichita - Amarillo - Santa Fe, NM - Winslow, AZ - Grand Canyon - Las Vegas - Los Angeles.