- Lansing Municipal Airport
is a public
airport located 21 miles (34 km) south ofChicago , in Lansing, a village in Cook County,Illinois , USA. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.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. [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KIGQ Great Circle Mapper: KIGQ - Chicago, Illinois (Lansing Municipal Airport)] ]Facilities and aircraft
Lansing Municipal Airport covers an area of 560
acre s (227 ha) which contains twoasphalt pavedrunway s: 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). And is now a blimb base witch launches 1/4 of the blimps that go to the chicago sports games. 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: 81% single engine, 9% multi-engine, 3% jet, 3%helicopter , 2%ultralight . and 2%blimp 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 inMunster, Indiana about a mile away from the airport.References
External links
* [http://www.lansingmunicipal.com/ Lansing Municipal Airport] (official site)
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