Pueblo Memorial Airport
Pueblo Memorial Airport
Pueblo Memorial Airport (IATA: PUB, ICAO: KPUB, FAA LID: PUB) is a public airport located six miles east of Pueblo, in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. It is primarily used for general aviation. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 4,345 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,192 in 2009 and 11,641 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a non-primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008/2009 (between 2,500 and 10,000 per year).
Location
38.289°N, 104.497°O · 1.440 m s. n. m. (4.726 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 7 Official publication
Tower
Ground
Clearance delivery
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
Built in 1941 as the Pueblo Army Air Base, it was used as an advanced flying school to train B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator four engine heavy bomber crews. It was under the command of the United States Army Air Forces Second Air Force 360th Army Air Force Base Unit. Known bomb groups which trained or based at Pueblo were:
94th Bombardment Group (B-17) January - April 1943
302d Bombardment Group (B-24) 30 September 1942 - 1 December 1942
351st Bombardment Group (B-17) 1 March - 12 April 1943
381st Bombardment Group (B-17) 5 April - 9 May 1943
400th Bombardment Group (B-17) 2 May - 31 July 1943
466th Bombardment Group (B-29) 25 July - 15 August 1945
469th Bombardment Group (B-24) 1–7 May 1943
471st Bombardment Group (B-24) 7 May 1943 - 28 January 1944
The history of the air base is preserved with the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society and its Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.
In 1948, it was handed over to the City of Pueblo. In the 1960s the main east–west runway (8/26) was extended from 6,000' to 10,000' to accommodate jet aircraft.
Today, Pueblo Memorial Airport is home of the United States Air Force's Initial Flight Training (IFT) program under the cognizance of the 12th Flying Training Wing at Randolph AFB, Texas and the 306th Flying Training Group at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. IFT began operations on October 1, 2006, replacing the former Pilot Indoctrination Program (PIP) for USAF Academy cadets, the Flight Instruction Program (FIP) for Air Force ROTC cadets, and the Initial Flight Screening (IFS) program previously operated at South Texas Regional Airport at Hondo, Texas for USAF officers commissioned via Officer Training School. Doss Aviation, under contract with the USAF, conducts flight training for between 1300 and 1700 USAF officer student pilot and student combat system officer trainees annually.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 15 aircraft documented between 2018 and 2020.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PUB
MLA
“Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PUB. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PUB.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/PUB (Accessed: 24 October 2026).
BibTeX
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urldate = {2026-10-24},
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}Wikipedia
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