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{{short description|Airport in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USAUnited States}}
{{Infobox airport
| name = Van Nuys Airport
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| image2 = KVNY2021.jpg
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| caption2 = Aerial view of Van Nuys Airport in 2021.
| IATA = VNY
| ICAO = KVNY
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| owner = [[Government of Los Angeles|City of Los Angeles]]
| operator = [[Los Angeles World Airports]]
| city-served = [[Greater Los Angeles]]
| location = [[Van Nuys, California|Van Nuys]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| opened = {{start date and age|1928|12|17}}
| elevation-f = 802
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'''Van Nuys Airport''' {{Airportairport codes|VNY|KVNY|VNY}} is a public [[airport]] in the [[Van Nuys, Los Angeles|Van Nuys]] neighborhood of the [[Los Angeles|City of Los Angeles]]. The airport is operated by [[Los Angeles World Airports]] (LAWA), a branch of the [[Government of Los Angeles|Los Angeles city government]], which also operates [[Los Angeles International Airport]] (LAX). Van Nuys is one of the busiest [[general aviation]] airports in the world, with the airport's two parallel [[runway]]s averaging over 230,000 takeoffs and landings annually. However, {{as of| 2022 |lc=y}}, no commercial air service operates to or from Van Nuys.
 
Van Nuys is home to news, medical transport, and tour helicopter operators, the air operations unit of the [[Los Angeles City Fire Department]], and a maintenance base for [[Los Angeles Police Department]] and [[Los Angeles Department of Water and Power]] helicopters.