Visalia Municipal Airport (IATA: VIS, ICAO: KVIS, FAA LID: VIS) is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) west of the central business district of Visalia, a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The airport is served by one commercial airline which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,831 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2010, a decrease of 25.4% from the 2,455 enplanements in 2009. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).
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