Algona Municipal Airport

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Algona Municipal Airport
IATA: AXG – ICAO: KAXA – FAA: AXA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Algona
Serves		Algona, Iowa
Elevation AMSL		1,219 ft / 372 m
Coordinates		43°04′40″N 094°16′19″W / 43.07778, -94.27194
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	3,960	1,207	Concrete
18/36	2,880	878	Turf
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			6,975
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Algona Municipal Airport (IATA: AXG, ICAO: KAXA, FAA LID: AXA) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Algona, a city in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. It is owned by the City of Algona.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Algona Municipal is assigned AXA by the FAA and AXG by the IATA (which assigned AXA to Wallblake Airport in Anguilla).^[2]^[3]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Algona Municipal Airport covers an area of 221 acres (89 ha) which contains two runways: 12/30 with a concrete pavement measuring 3,960 x 75 ft. (1,207 x 23 m) and 18/36 with a turf surface measuring 2,880 x 160 ft. (878 x 49 m). For the 12-month period ending November 28, 2005, the airport had 6,975 aircraft operations, an average of 19 per day, all of which were general aviation.^[1]