Decommissionedconfidence high
Northern Colorado Regional Airport
Photo of the airport: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Northern Colorado Regional Airport is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Colorado DOT says the FAA terminated the Loveland project in late 2023 after the vendor opted not to continue; the project began in 2013.
What the sources say
- Colorado DOT says the FAA terminated the Loveland project in late 2023 after the vendor opted not to continue; the project began in 2013.https://www.codot.gov/business/consultants/advertised-projects/2026/statewide-project-specific-digital-airport-traffic-control-tower-project-management-services/cdot-aero-digital-tower-program-management-sow_acc.pdf
- A mobile tower with contract controllers operates at the airport; the airport commission kept a digital tower option open in 2023.https://bizwest.com/?p=373279
Timeline
- 1 Oct 2015Selected as FAA test site
- 2023FAA terminated the project after the vendor left
Connections
Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.
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At a glance
- ICAO
- KFNL
- Country
- United States
- Type
- Remote tower
- Vendor
- Searidge
- Provider
- FAA / Colorado DOT
- Status
- Decommissioned
- Position
- 40.450, -105.011