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KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 34.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 28.2%

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 10 arrivals and 12 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KCID, 19 mi away (KIOW does not publish METAR)

33m ago

Temp

78°F

Wind

7 kts

310°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KCID 172052Z 31007KT 10SM CLR 26/16 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP176 T02560161 58012

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

32% of ops

264 land · 280 TO

31% of ops

257 land · 247 TO

27% of ops

223 land · 170 TO

11% of ops

91 land · 94 TO

Runway 25 carries 32% of operations (264 landings, 280 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

25 264 landings

UA 7%

07 257 landings

UA 4%

12 223 landings

UA 8%

30 91 landings

UA 11%

Approaches to 25 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (19 UA events from 264 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

25.9

flights/day · 776 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 25.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (23.0 vs 28.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 594 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