Lansing Municipal Airport

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Coordinates: 41°32′06″N 087°31′46″W / 41.535, -87.52944

Lansing Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KIGQ – FAA: IGQ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Village of Lansing
Serves		Chicago, Illinois
Location		Lansing, Illinois
Elevation AMSL		620 ft / 189 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
9/27	3,395	1,035	Asphalt
18/36	4,002	1,220	Asphalt
Statistics (2004)
Aircraft operations			54,000
Based aircraft			173
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Lansing Municipal Airport (ICAO: KIGQ, FAA LID: IGQ) is a public airport located 21 miles (34 km) south of Chicago, in Lansing, a village in Cook County, Illinois, USA. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Lansing Municipal Airport is assigned IGQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[2]

1 Facilities and aircraft
2 Incidents
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Lansing Municipal Airport covers an area of 560 acres (227 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 3,395 x 75 ft. (1,035 x 23 m) and 18/36: 4,002 x 75 ft. (1,220 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport had 54,000 aircraft operations, an average of 147 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. There are 173 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single engine, 9% multi-engine, 5% jet, 4% helicopter and 1% ultralight.^[1]

[edit] Incidents

On March 9, 2007 a small plane crashed after takeoff from the airport at 7:30 pm. 2 people died. The plane crashed on Calumet Avenue in Munster, Indiana about a mile away from the airport.