Iowa City Municipal Airport

Iowa City Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Iowa City
ServesIowa City, Iowa
Elevation AMSL683 ft / 208 m
Coordinates41°38′21″N 91°32′47″W / 41.63917°N 91.54639°W / 41.63917; -91.54639
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IOW is located in Iowa
IOW
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IOW is located in the United States
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
7/25 5,002 1,525 Concrete
12/30 3,900 1,189 Concrete
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2016)19,287
Based aircraft (2017)73

Iowa City Municipal Airport (IATA: IOW, ICAO: KIOW, FAA LID: IOW), is two miles southwest of downtown Iowa City, in Johnson County, Iowa.[1] It is the oldest civil airport west of the Mississippi River still in its original location.[3][4]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional general aviation facility.[5]

The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest airline airport is The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, about 19 miles (31 km) northwest. In the 1920s Iowa City was on the original transcontinental air route, flown by Boeing Air Transport, a United predecessor. On March 1, 1959, United was replaced by Ozark, which pulled out of Iowa City in April 1970.

  1. ^ a b FAA Airport Form 5010 for IOW PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. effective December 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "IOW - Iowa City Municipal Airport". airnav.com. AirNav. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  3. ^ "History of the Iowa City Municipal Airport | City of Iowa City".
  4. ^ Daly Bednarek, Janet R. (2008). "Iowa City Municipal Airport: Opening the West to Aviation, 1918-2007". The Annals of Iowa. 67 (2): 243–244. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.1241.
  5. ^ "List of NPIAS Airports" (PDF). FAA.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. October 21, 2016. p. 29. Retrieved August 21, 2017.