Iowa City Municipal Airport


Iowa City Municipal Airport, is two miles southwest of Iowa City, in Johnson County, Iowa. It is the oldest civil airport west of the Mississippi River still in its original location.
The Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional general aviation facility.
The airport has no scheduled airline service; the closest airline airport is The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, about northwest. In the 1920s Iowa City was on the original transcontinental air route, flown by Boeing Air Transport, a United predecessor. In 1959 United was replaced by Ozark, which pulled out of Iowa City in 1969-70.

Facilities

The airport covers at an elevation of. It has two concrete runways: 7/25 is 5,002 by 100 feet ; 12/30 is 3,900 by 75 feet. The airport has approved GPS and VOR Instrument approaches.
In the year ending September 14, 2016 the airport had 19,287 aircraft operations, average 53 per day: 87% general aviation, 11% air taxi, and 1% military.
In December 2017, 73 aircraft were based at the airport: 61 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 7 jet, 1 helicopter, and 1 glider.
There is an airport terminal building, an aircraft maintenance shop, two corporate hangar buildings, a multi-plane hangar with attached office area, and five buildings with 60 individual hangars.