Iowa County Airport
{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox airport
| name = Iowa County Airport
| image =
| IATA =
| ICAO = KMRJ
| FAA = MRJ
| type = Public
| owner = Iowa County
| operator =
| city-served = Mineral Point, Wisconsin
| location =
| opened = {{start date|1962|04|}}
| timezone = CST
| utc = UTC−06:00
| summer = CDT
| utcs = UTC−05:00
| elevation-f = 1,171
| website =
| coordinates = {{coord|42|53|13|N|090|14|12|W|region:US-WI_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = USA Wisconsin#USA
| pushpin_relief = yes
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Wisconsin
| pushpin_label = MRJ
| pushpin_label_position = right
| r1-number = 11/29
| r1-length-f = 5,001
| r1-surface = Asphalt
| r2-number = 4/22
| r2-length-f = 3,600
| r2-surface = Asphalt
| stat-year =
| stat1-header = Aircraft operations (2024)
| stat1-data = 14,750
| stat2-header = Based aircraft (2024)
| stat2-data = 29
| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=MRJ|use=PU|own=PU|site=27390.1*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. effective August 8, 2024.
}}
Iowa County Airport {{airport codes||KMRJ|MRJ}} is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Mineral Point, a city in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.{{cite web |title=NPIAS Report 2025-2029 Appendix A |url=https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/airports/planning_capacity/npias/current/ARP-NPIAS-2025-2029-Appendix-A.pdf |website=Federal Aviation Administration |accessdate=November 12, 2024 |date=October 28, 2024}}
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned MRJ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA{{cite web | url = http://www.gcmap.com/airport/KMRJ | title = Iowa County Airport (ICAO: KMRJ, FAA: MRJ) | publisher = Great Circle Mapper | accessdate = May 16, 2013}} (which assigned MRJ to Marcala Airport in Marcala, Honduras).{{cite web | url = http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=MRJ | title = Marcala Airport, Honduras (IATA: MRJ, ICAO: MHMA) | publisher = Aviation Safety Network | accessdate = May 16, 2013}}
Facilities and aircraft
Iowa County Airport covers an area of 383 acres (155 ha) at an elevation of 1,171 feet (357 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: the primary runway 11/29 is 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m) and the crosswind runway 4/22 is 3,600 by 60 feet (1,097 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending May 22, 2024, the airport had 14,750 aircraft operations, an average of 40 per day: 92% general aviation, 5% air taxi and 3% military.
In August 2024, there were 29 aircraft based at this airport: 25 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 2 helicopter.
Cargo operations
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.iowacounty.org/departments/airport/airport.shtml Airport page] at Iowa County website
- {{cite web |url= http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/air/docs/airports/mineral-point.pdf |title= Iowa County (MRJ) |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130315151812/http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/air/docs/airports/mineral-point.pdf |archivedate= 2013-03-15 }} at Wisconsin DOT Airport Directory
- {{FAA-procedures|MRJ}}
{{US-airport-ga|MRJ|-}}
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