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KC27 ·

Manchester Municipal Airport

42.49330°N

-91.49850°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

34m ago

Temp

65°F

Wind

8 kts

200°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDBQ 120653Z AUTO 20008KT 10SM CLR 18/14 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP105 T01830144 $

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

13 land · 11 TO

35% of ops

7 land · 4 TO

Runway 36 carries 65% of operations (13 landings, 11 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 13 landings

UA 8%

18 7 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 36 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 13 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

1.4

flights/day · 41 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 9pm · 10pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–10pm local, averaging 1.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (2.0 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 18%

6 · 15%

3 · 8%

Activity is led by (18% of 40 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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