Clarion_Municipal_Airport

Clarion Municipal Airport

Clarion Municipal Airport

Airport

This article is about the airport in Iowa. For the airport in Pennsylvania, see Clarion County Airport.

Clarion Municipal Airport (ICAO: KCAV, FAA LID: CAV) is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of Clarion, a city in Wright County, Iowa, United States.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

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Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned CAV by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned CAV to Cazombo Airport in Angola[4]).

Facilities and aircraft

Clarion Municipal Airport covers an area of 255 acres (103 ha) at an elevation of 1,162 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with a concrete surface measuring 3,515 by 60 feet (1,071 x 18 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 6, 2009, the airport had 3,750 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day. At that time there were 12 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single-engine, 17% multi-engine and 8% ultralight.[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    FAA Airport Form 5010 for CAV PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. [2]
    National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 2 (PDF, 1.04 MB) Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
  3. [3]
    "Clarion Municipal Airport (FAA: CAV, ICAO: KCAV)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  4. [4]
    "Cazombo Airport, Angola (IATA: CAV, ICAO: FNCZ)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
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