Considered the nation’s third busiest general aviation airport, Centennial Airport (KAPA) near Denver, has become the first public-use airport in the state of Colorado to offer unleaded aviation fuel to its piston-powered aircraft users.
One of four aviation fuel providers located at the airport, jetCenter of Colorado, became the first to take on a load of the unleaded avgas produced by Swift Fuels.
With much of Centennial Airport’s traffic consisting of training flights, flight schools based at the airport have shown their support for the transition. According to state aviation officials, 80% of the aircraft operated by flight schools at Centennial Airport are now certified to use UL94 unleaded avgas.
It’s anticipated that other Colorado airports will soon follow Centennial’s lead with Broomfield’s Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport announcing possible future plans for the transition to unleaded avgas.
For more information about Centennial Airport’s transition to unleaded avgas, go to CentennialAirport.com/94ul.
Swift doesn’t have an approved fuel for higher compression engines (not yet, at least). GAMI has that approval and is rolling out their fuel to California airports.
This article is weirdly and frustratingly misleading without being totally wrong. Some awful journalism here. (But that’s the way of the “news” world any more).
Why is this article wrong or the journalism awful? APA is indeed the first airport in Colorado to offer unleaded aviation fuel (not mogas) at retail, and that’s what this story is about- it’s not about California or GAMI. If GAMI’s unleaded fuel ever makes it here, I’m sure there will be a story about that too.
It’s not wrong as the OP stated, but it does certainly cause misleading expectations. In a time where all the fuzz is about 100UL, an unleaded fuel that most aircraft cant use is “old news”
Automobile fuel is not the same as avgas, so this truly is the first airport to sell unleaded aviation fuel.
Sorry, not true. The lead-free aviation fuel Mogas has been available at some Colorado airports for many years. For instance at KLMO (Longmont, CO) for $5.54 per gallon and KEGE (Eagle, CO), for $5.00 a gallon. Pure-gas.org shows 147 gas stations in Colorado selling lead-free, ethanol-free gasoline = the FAA-approved aircraft fuel called mogas.