Aurora Municipal Airport

This article is about the airport in Illinois. For the airport in Nebraska, see Aurora Municipal Airport (Nebraska). For other airports, see Aurora Airport (disambiguation).
Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorCity of Aurora
ServesChicago metropolitan area
LocationSugar Grove, Illinois
OpenedApril 1966; 58 years ago (1966-04)
Elevation AMSL712 ft / 217 m
Coordinates41°46′19″N 088°28′32″W / 41.77194°N 88.47556°W / 41.77194; -88.47556
Websitewww.aurora-il.org/530/Aurora-Municipal-Airport
Maps
FAA airport diagram
FAA airport diagram
AUZ/KARR/ARR is located in Illinois
AUZ/KARR/ARR
AUZ/KARR/ARR
Location of airport in Illinois
AUZ/KARR/ARR is located in the United States
AUZ/KARR/ARR
AUZ/KARR/ARR
AUZ/KARR/ARR (the United States)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
9/27 6,501 1,982 Concrete
15/33 5,503 1,677 Concrete
18/36 3,198 975 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2022)76,885
Based aircraft (2022)197
Source: FAA[1]

Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport (IATA: AUZ, ICAO: KARR, FAA LID: ARR) is a public airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States, 8 miles (13 km) west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 50 miles (80 km) west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.[1][2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for both the FAA and IATA, Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to Alto Río Senguer Airport in Argentina). The airport's ICAO identifier is KARR.[3][4]

The airport is home to the Air Classics museum of Aviation, which strives to preserve aviation's role throughout history.[5]

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for ARR PDF, effective Jan 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Aurora Municipal Airport (official web site)
  3. ^ Great Circle Mapper: AUZ / KARR - Chicago/Aurora, Illinois (Aurora Municipal Airport)
  4. ^ Great Circle Mapper: ARR / SAVR - Alto Rio Senguerr, Argentina (D. Casimiro Szlapelis Airport)
  5. ^ "Learn More About The Air Classics Museum". Air Classics Inc Museum of Aviation. Retrieved 2022-11-22.