Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport

Coordinates: 38°56′48″N 092°40′58″W / 38.94667°N 92.68278°W / 38.94667; -92.68278

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KVER – FAA LID: VER
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Boonville
Serves		Boonville, Missouri
Elevation AMSL		715 ft / 218 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
18/36	3,999	1,219	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			9,080
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport (ICAO: KVER, FAA LID: VER), also known as Jesse P. Viertel Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of Boonville, a city in Cooper County, Missouri, United States.^[1] It is home to the Daniel Boone Flying Club, which serves central Missouri.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport is assigned VER by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned VER to General Heriberto Jara International Airport in Veracruz, Mexico^[3]).

Facilities and aircraft

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport covers an area of 125 acres (51 ha) which contains one runway designated 18/36 with a 3,999 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2006, the airport had 9,080 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 92% general aviation (8,380), 4% air taxi (400), 3% military (300).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} FAA Airport Master Record for VER (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
2. ^ Great Circle Mapper: KVER - Boonville, Missouri (Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport)
3. ^ Great Circle Mapper: VER / MMVR - Veracruz, Mexico (General Heriberto Jara International)

External links

• Tig Air Aviation, the airport's fixed base operator (FBO)
• Daniel Boone Flying Club
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for VER
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for VER