Iowa City Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Iowa City⬆ 668 ft2 runways

KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 9.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 2.8%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 15 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Visib

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Ceil

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Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

55% of ops

330 land · 338 TO

20% of ops

119 land · 97 TO

15% of ops

91 land · 64 TO

10% of ops

57 land · 50 TO

Runway 25 carries 55% of operations (330 landings, 338 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

25 330 landings

UA 5%

07 119 landings

UA 5%

12 91 landings

UA 3%

30 57 landings

UA 2%

Approaches to 25 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 330 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

30.3

flights/day · 908 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 6pm · 9pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 30.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (33.6 vs 30.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 626 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

7/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7