Lansing Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Village of Lansing | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
Location | Lansing, Illinois | ||||||||||||||
Opened | April 1940 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 620 ft / 189 m | ||||||||||||||
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Location in Illinois | |||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration
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Aircraft operations | 54,000 |
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Based aircraft (2016) | 143 |
Ford Airport Hangar
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Ford Hangar in May 2012
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Location | 3250 Bob Malkas Drive Lansing, Illinois |
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Coordinates | 41°32′33″N 87°32′18″W / 41.54250°N 87.53833°W |
Built | 1926 |
Architect | Albert Kahn |
NRHP Reference # | 85001009 |
Added to NRHP | May 9, 1985 |
Coordinates: 41°32′06″N 087°31′46″W / 41.53500°N 87.52944°W
Lansing Municipal Airport (ICAO: KIGQ, FAA LID: IGQ) is 21 miles south of Chicago, in Lansing, a village in Cook County, Illinois. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.
Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Lansing Municipal Airport is IGQ to the FAA and has no IATA code.
Lansing Municipal Airport covers 650 acres (260 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 9/27 is 3,395 x 75 ft (1,035 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 4,002 x 75 ft (1,220 x 23 m). It also houses a blimp base which launches 1/4 of the blimps that cover Chicago sporting events.
In 2004 the airport totalled 54,000 aircraft operations, average 147 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. In November 2016, 143 aircraft were based at this airport: 113 single engine, 15 multi-engine, 5 jet, 9 helicopter and 1 ultralight.