Clarion Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the

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, a city in Wright County, Iowa, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's

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for 2009–2013, which

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it as a '' general aviation'' facility. Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and

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, this facility is assigned CAV by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned CAV to

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in Angola).

Facilities and aircraft

Clarion Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 1,162 feet (354 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with a concrete surface measuring 3,515 by 60 feet (1,071 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending May 6, 2009, the airport had 3,750 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 10 per day. At that time there were 12 aircraft based at this airport: 75% single- engine, 17% multi-engine and 8% ultralight.

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Aerial image as of 16 April 1994
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