Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport, is a city owned public use
airport
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3
miles (5
km) northeast of the
central business district of
Fort Atkinson, a city in
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Jefferson County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,900. Its county seat is Jefferson. Jefferson County comprises the Watertown- Fort Atkinson, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which i ...
, United States.
It is included in the
Federal Aviation Administration
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(FAA)
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is
categorized as a local
general aviation
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facility.
This airport is assigned
location identifier
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61C by the FAA but has no designation from the
International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Facilities and aircraft
Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport covers an area of 118
acres (48
ha) at an
elevation
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of 800 feet (244 m) above
mean sea level
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For a data set, the '' ari ...
. It has one
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, concre ...
: 3/21 is 3,800 by 60 feet (1,158 x 18 m) with an asphalt surface and has approved GPS approaches.
For the 12-month period ending May 4, 2021, the airport had 10,900 aircraft operations, an average of 30 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and less than 1% military.
In March 2024, there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 18 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, 4 helicopter and 1 ultra-light.
See also
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List of airports in Wisconsin
This is a list of airports in Wisconsin (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports th ...
References
External links
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* AirportGuid
airport information for 61C
{{Aviation in Wisconsin
Airports in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Wisconsin