Cape Girardeau Regional Airport


Cape Girardeau Regional Airport is a city owned public use airport in Scott County, Missouri, United States. It is located five nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Cape Girardeau, a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The airport is used for general aviation, and has scheduled service by United Express partner SkyWest with subsidized Essential Air Service program flights to Chicago O’Hare.
It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a Commercial Service - Nonprimary airport based on passenger enplanements.

Facilities and aircraft

Cape Girardeau Regional Airport covers an area of 557 acres at an elevation of 342 feet above mean sea level. It has two runways: 10/28 is 6,500 by 150 feet with a concrete surface; 2/20 is 3,997 by 100 feet with an asphalt/concrete surface.
For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2018, the airport had 29,106 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 91% general aviation, 5% scheduled commercial, 3% air taxi and 1% military. In January 2019, there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 48 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 2 jet and 2 helicopter.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

History

Opened in 1943, the airport was constructed by the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Harris Army Airfield, the airfield was a primary pilot training airfield assigned to AAF Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center . It was operated under contract to Cape Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., with the civil instructors under the USAAF 73d Flying Training Detachment. Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer at the airfield.
Contract flying training was short at the airfield, the school closing during the late summer of 1944 with the draw down of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration.