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📍 Manchester⬆ 987 ft1 runways

KC27 ·

Manchester Municipal Airport

42.49330°N

-91.49850°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 300.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 50.0%

Manchester Municipal Airport (KC27) is a small general aviation airport located in Manchester, IA, 34 mi north of Cedar Rapids. It features 1 runway measuring 3,465 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDBQ, 41 mi away (KC27 does not publish METAR)

58m ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

12 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDBQ 262253Z 30012KT 10SM FEW045 25/17 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP136 T02500167

Runways

1 installed

3,465 FT MAX

18/36

3,465 ft × 50

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

15 land · 4 TO

35% of ops

8 land · 12 TO

Runway 36 carries 65% of operations (15 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

36 15 landings

UA 7%

18 8 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 36 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 15 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

2.4

flights/day · 72 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 6pm · 4pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 2.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.1× weekday (4.0 vs 1.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 72 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 987 ft
Mag var:: 2° E
Fuel:: 100LL

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