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Boone Municipal Airport

42.04960°N
-93.84760°W
ARR / DAY
8
▲ 38.5%
DEP / DAY
7
▲ 23.7%

Boone Municipal Airport (KBNW/BNW) is a small general aviation airport located in Boone, IA, 33 mi north of Des Moines. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,808 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5m ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
6 kts
300°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBNW 210915Z AUTO 30006KT 10SM CLR 23/20 A2984 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

4,808 FT MAX
02/20
3,248 ft × 146
GRE○ unlit
15/33
4,808 ft × 75
PEM● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

15
36% of ops
497 land · 574 TO
33
27% of ops
378 land · 329 TO
20
20% of ops
273 land · 277 TO
02
17% of ops
236 land · 155 TO
Runway 15 carries 36% of operations (497 landings, 574 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 27%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

15 497 landings
UA 7%
33 378 landings
UA 5%
20 273 landings
UA 5%
02 236 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 15 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (33 UA events from 497 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
8.6
flights/day · 259 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 8pm
Day vs night
64%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 8.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (9.1 vs 8.9 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

60 · 26%
47 · 20%
15 · 6%
13 · 6%
11 · 5%
10 · 4%
Activity is led by (26% of 235 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
APCH 123.900 —
APCH 307.150 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 120.925 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Anonymous
07/31/2011
Friendly
Boone Airport advertises itself as being "The friendliest little airport in Iowa". All true. :) Fun.
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