: ''For the military use of this facility, see

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.'' Columbus Municipal Airport is three miles north of

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, in Bartholomew County,

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

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for the

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and

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, but this airport is BAK to the FAA and CLU to the IATA.

History

The airport is on the site of the former

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Atterbury Army Airfield, a U.S. Army Air Forces facility, and

, a

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-era

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installation utilized primarily by the

Air Force Reserve The Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) is a MAJCOM, major command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It is the federal Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the U.S. Air Force, consisting of ...

. It was the host base for the

434th Troop Carrier Wing 434th may refer to: *434th Air Refueling Wing, one of the key refueling units in the US Air Force Reserve *434th Bombardment Squadron, an inactive United States Air Force unit * 434th Fighter Training Squadron (434 FTS), part of the 47th Flying Tra ...

twice, from 1949 to 1952 and again from 1953 to 1969.

Facilities

Columbus Municipal Airport covers at an

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of 656 feet (200 m). It has two concrete

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

s: 5/23 is 6,400 by 150 feet (1,951 x 46 m) and 14/32 is 5,000 by 100 feet (1,524 x 30 m). In 2005 the airport had 39,155 aircraft operations, average 107 per day: 91%

general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...

and 9% military. In 2015, 77 aircraft were based at the airport: 58 single-engine, 8 multi-engine, 7 jet, 2

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, 1 glider and 1 ultra-light.

Terminal building

The airport completely renovated its terminal building in 2015.

References

External links

*
Columbus Municipal Airport

Aerial photo
from

Indiana Department of Transportation The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Indiana charged with maintaining and regulating transportation and transportation related infrastructure such as state owned airports, List of numbered ...

* * {{Airports in Indiana Airports in Indiana Transportation buildings and structures in Bartholomew County, Indiana Columbus, Indiana