Council Bluffs Municipal Airport is a public use

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located four

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s (5 mi, 7 km) east of the

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Council Bluffs Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The city is the most populous in Southwest Iowa, and is the third largest and a primary city of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area. It is lo ...

, a city in

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, United States. It is owned by Council Bluffs Airport Authority. This airport is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''

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'' facility. Flight school and air charter company Advanced Air Inc. operates out of this airport. The airport is also the site of Iowa Western Community College's Aviation Maintenance Technology program, and their Professional Pilot training program. The airport has many instrument approaches, including an ILS to Runway 36, and a VOR-A approach that are both used regularly for training.

Facilities and aircraft

Council Bluffs Municipal Airport covers an area of 656

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s (265 ha) at an

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of 1,245 feet (379 m) above

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. It has two

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s with

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surfaces: 18/36 is 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m) and 14/32 is 3,650 by 60 feet (1,113 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending March 22, 2012, the airport had 40,050 aircraft operations, an average of 109 per day: 96%

, 4%

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, and <1%

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. At that time there were 83 aircraft based at this airport: 63% single-

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, 14.5% multi-engine, 8% jet, and 14.5%

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References

External links

Council Bluffs Airport Authority

Advanced Air
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(FBO)
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