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Boone Municipal Airport

42.04960°N
-93.84760°W
ARR / DAY
3
▼ 25.8%
DEP / DAY
3
▼ 15.4%

Boone Municipal Airport (KBNW/BNW) is a small general aviation airport located in Boone, IA, 33 mi north of Des Moines. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,807 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

4m ago
Temp
68°F
Wind
5 kts
340°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBNW 190815Z AUTO 34005KT 10SM CLR 20/20 A2992 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

4,807 FT MAX
02/20
3,298 ft × 290
GRE○ unlit
15/33
4,807 ft × 75
PEM● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

15
49% of ops
134 land · 159 TO
33
23% of ops
64 land · 51 TO
02
17% of ops
46 land · 40 TO
20
11% of ops
31 land · 27 TO
Runway 15 carries 49% of operations (134 landings, 159 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

15 134 landings
UA 3%
33 64 landings
UA 2%
02 46 landings
UA 4%
20 31 landings
UA 13%
Approaches to 15 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 134 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
7.1
flights/day · 212 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 2pm · 6pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 7.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (7.0 vs 7.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

67 · 35%
24 · 13%
15 · 8%
11 · 6%
9 · 5%
9 · 5%
Activity is led by (35% of 190 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
APCH 123.900 —
APCH 307.150 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 120.925 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Anonymous
7/31/2011
Friendly
Boone Airport advertises itself as being "The friendliest little airport in Iowa". All true. :) Fun.
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