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Boone Municipal Airport

42.04960°N
-93.84760°W
ARR / DAY
4
▲ 177.8%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 200.0%

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 4,807 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 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

1d ago
Temp
66°F
Wind
6 kts
150°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBNW 292315Z AUTO 15006KT 7SM -DZ BKN042 OVC120 19/19 A2980 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

4,807 FT MAX
02/20
3,298 ft × 290
GRE○ unlit
15/33
4,807 ft × 75
PEM● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

15
54% of ops
114 land · 169 TO
33
30% of ops
63 land · 23 TO
20
10% of ops
22 land · 14 TO
02
5% of ops
11 land · 2 TO
Runway 15 carries 54% of operations (114 landings, 169 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

15 114 landings
UA 15%
33 63 landings
UA 5%
20 22 landings
UA 14%
02 11 landings
UA 9%
Approaches to 15 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 114 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
8.4
flights/day · 252 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 9pm · 4pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 8.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.2× weekday (2.0 vs 11.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

29 · 17%
16 · 10%
14 · 8%
13 · 8%
10 · 6%
10 · 6%
Activity is led by (17% of 166 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
8/1/2011
Friendly
Boone Airport advertises itself as being "The friendliest little airport in Iowa". All true. :) Fun.
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