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Boone Municipal Airport

42.04960°N
-93.84760°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 65.9%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 73.0%

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 2 arrivals and 1 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

17h ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
11 kts
120°
Visib
4828 m
Ceil
—
METAR KBNW 150655Z AUTO 12011KT 3SM BR OVC003 22/22 A3001 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
41% of ops
216 land · 296 TO
33
22% of ops
116 land · 90 TO
20
19% of ops
98 land · 87 TO
02
18% of ops
94 land · 71 TO
Runway 15 carries 41% of operations (216 landings, 296 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

15 216 landings
UA 2%
33 116 landings
UA 4%
20 98 landings
UA 9%
02 94 landings
UA 16%
Approaches to 15 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 216 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
7.2
flights/day · 216 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 8pm · 6pm
Day vs night
64%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–6pm local, averaging 7.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (9.4 vs 6.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

62 · 33%
21 · 11%
16 · 8%
15 · 8%
11 · 6%
10 · 5%
Activity is led by (33% of 189 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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