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KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 10.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 1.7%

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 14 arrivals and 16 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

5 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 121952Z AUTO 27005KT 10SM BKN010 27/24 A2983 RMK AO2 SLP094 T02670239

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

34% of ops

351 land · 418 TO

29% of ops

304 land · 259 TO

26% of ops

266 land · 195 TO

11% of ops

110 land · 91 TO

Runway 25 carries 34% of operations (351 landings, 418 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

25 351 landings

UA 8%

07 304 landings

UA 3%

12 266 landings

UA 8%

30 110 landings

UA 9%

Approaches to 25 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 351 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

25.3

flights/day · 758 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 25.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (20.4 vs 28.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (31% of 591 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

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