Cindy Guntly Memorial Airport , originally ''Hunt Field'', is a privately owned public use

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located northwest of the

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of Franksville, a neighborhood of the village of

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, in

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, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter

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for the

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and

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, this airport is assigned 62C by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. The airport is named in honor of the owner's wife, Cindy Guntly, who was involved in a fatal car accident in 1986.

Facilities and aircraft

Cindy Guntly Memorial Airport covers an area of at an

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of 784 feet (239 m) above

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. It has two

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s: 1/19 is 2,381 by 70 feet (726 x 21 m) with a turf surface; 18/36 is 1,239 by 80 feet (378 x 24 m), also with a turf surface. For the 12-month period ending June 2, 2022, the airport had 6,700 aircraft operations: all general aviation. In April 2024, there were 34 aircraft based at this airport: 30 single-engine, 1 helicopter and 3 ultra-light.

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