Aurora Municipal Airport (Illinois)

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Aurora Municipal Airport
IATA: AUZ – ICAO: KARR – FAA: ARR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner/Operator		City of Aurora
Serves		Chicago / Aurora, Illinois
Location		Sugar Grove, Illinois
Elevation AMSL		712 ft / 217 m
Coordinates		41°46′19″N 088°28′32″W / 41.77194, -88.47556
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
9/27	6,501	1,982	Concrete
15/33	5,502	1,677	Concrete
18/36	3,199	975	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			110,754
Based aircraft			293
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Aurora Municipal Airport (IATA: AUZ, ICAO: KARR, FAA LID: ARR) is a public airport located in the village Sugar Grove, 8 miles (13 km) west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County, Illinois, United States. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 35 miles (56 km) west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.^[1][2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to Alto Rio Senguerr, Argentina). The airport's ICAO identifier is KARR.^[3][4]

Contents 1 Facilities and aircraft 2 Images 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Aurora Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,100 acres (445 ha) which contains three runways:^[1]

• Runway 9/27: 6,501 x 100 ft (1,982 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete
• Runway 15/33: 5,502 x 100 ft (1,677 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete
• Runway 18/36: 3,199 x 75 ft (975 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt

Current plans call for a parallel runway for 9/27 by 2009.^{[citation needed]}

For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2005, the airport had 110,754 aircraft operations, an average of 303 per day: 99% general aviation, 1% air taxi and <1% military. There are 293 aircraft based at this airport: 71% single engine, 19% multi-engine, 9% jet aircraft and 1% helicopters.^[1]

Lumanair is the airport's fixed base operator (FBO).

[edit] Images

Aurora Municipal Airport (west side)

Air Classics Museum building

Air Classics Museum display

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Aurora Municipal Airport: Runway and taxiway diagram
• City of Aurora, Illinois
• Lumanair Aviation Services, fixed base operator
• Gauntlet Warbirds, a warbird, aerobatic and tailwheel training center
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KARR
  • ASN accident history for AUZ
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KARR
• Aurora Municipal Airport at WikiMapia