Waupaca Municipal Airport is a city owned public use

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located three

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s (6 km) southeast of the

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of Waupaca, a city in Waupaca County,

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. The airport is also known as Brunner Field. It is located adjacent to U.S. Route 10. It is included in the

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(FAA)

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for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a local

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facility. 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 PCZ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.Great Circle Mapper: KPCZ - Waupaca Municipal Airport - Waupaca, Wisconsin
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Facilities and aircraft

Waupaca Municipal Airport covers an area of at an

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of 840 feet (256 m) above

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. It has two

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paved

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: 10/28 is 5,200 by 100 feet (1,585 x 30 m) with approved GPS approaches and 13/31 is 3,899 by 75 feet (1,188 x 23 m). KlattAero, LLC. is the

fixed-base operator A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction, ...

and also provides aircraft maintenance and inspections. For the 12-month period ending September 14, 2022, the airport had 20,160 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day: 99%

, 1%

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and less than 1%

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. In November 2022, there were 40 aircraft based at this airport: 35 single-engine, 3 multi-engine and 2 jet.

Images

Image:WaupacaMunicipalAirportSign.jpg, Entrance sign Image:WaupacaMunicipalAirportTerminal.jpg, Terminal

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