VEL
Vernal Regional Airport

Vernal Regional Airport (IATA: VEL, ICAO: KVEL) is a medium airport in Vernal, Utah, United States. It opened in May 1945. It has one runway, 7,000 ft (2,134 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 25 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1945–1945MAY 1945
OpenedVernal Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF17/35179° / 359° · LIT
LENGTH7,000 ft2,134 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2017–202513K
18K
25K
11K
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28K
21K
25K
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Routes
2 destinations · 1 countryStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VEL. From the Wikipedia article “Vernal Regional Airport” (revision of 10 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
3 channelsASOSASOS135.175
RDOCEDAR CITY RDO122.350
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.700