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📍 Iowa City⬆ 668 ft2 runways

KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

84°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 270452Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 29/27 A2983 RMK AO2 SLP093 T02890267 $

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

719 land · 777 TO

32% of ops

457 land · 404 TO

13% of ops

182 land · 158 TO

4% of ops

52 land · 53 TO

Runway 25 carries 51% of operations (719 landings, 777 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

25 719 landings

UA 5%

07 457 landings

UA 7%

12 182 landings

UA 5%

30 52 landings

UA 8%

Approaches to 25 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (36 UA events from 719 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

19.8

flights/day · 595 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 5pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 19.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (24.9 vs 18.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 464 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

07/18/2007

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