Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is a public
airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of
Sugar Grove,
Illinois, United States, west of the city of
Aurora, both in
Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is west of
Chicago and is designated as a
reliever airport for Chicago's
O'Hare and
Midway airports.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier for both the
FAA and
IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA ) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tariff ...
, Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to
Alto Río Senguer Airport
Alto Río Senguer Airport is a public use airport serving the town of Alto Río Senguer, Chubut, Argentina.
See also
*List of airports in Argentina
This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location.
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Argentina). The airport's
ICAO
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identifier is KARR.
The airport is home to the Air Classics museum of Aviation, which strives to preserve aviation's role throughout history.
Facilities and aircraft
Aurora Municipal Airport covers an area of , and contains three
runways:
* Runway 9/27: 6,501 x 100 ft (1,982 x 30 m), surface: concrete
* Runway 15/33: 5,503 x 100 ft (1,677 x 30 m), surface: concrete
* Runway 18/36: 3,198 x 75 ft (975 x 23 m), surface: asphalt
For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2022, the airport had 76,650 aircraft operations, an average of 210 per day: 98%
general aviation, 2%
air taxi, <1%
military, and <1%
commercial. For the same time period, there are 197 aircraft based on the field: 144 single-engine and 23 multi-engine
airplanes, 24
jets, 5
helicopters, and 1
glider
Glider may refer to:
Aircraft and transport Aircraft
* Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight
** Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of glidin ...
.
J.A. Air Center and Revv Aviation are the airport's two
fixed-base operators (FBOs). Together, they offer services such as fuel,
general maintenance, hangars, courtesy cars and shuttles, conference rooms, crew lounges, snooze rooms, and more. They also offer
flight training
Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills.
Flight training can be conducted under a str ...
, aircraft rentals, and charter service businesses.
The airport received money from the Rebuild Illinois program, designed in 2021 to help airports complete upgrades and stay open during the
covid-19 pandemic, to rehabilitate parking lots, the entrance road, and perimeter roadways. In late 2022, the airport authority approved plans to upgrade hangars and other facilities.
Incidents
*On June 13, 2011, the aircraft
Liberty Belle, a
B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater ...
crashed in
Oswego, Illinois after taking off from Aurora. Early reports indicate that shortly after takeoff the pilot reported an engine fire, and attempted to return to the airfield. He was unable to do so, however, and chose instead to put the aircraft down in a nearby cornfield with seven people on board, all of whom were reported to be safe.
Gallery
References
External links
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{{Aviation in Illinois
Airports in Kane County, Illinois
Sugar Grove, Illinois
Transportation in Aurora, Illinois