Boscobel Airport

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Boscobel Airport Boscobel Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KOVS – FAA: OVS
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Boscobel
Serves		Boscobel, Wisconsin
Elevation AMSL		673 ft / 205 m
Coordinates		43°09′39″N 090°40′26″W / 43.16083, -90.67389
Website		BoscobelWisconsin.com/...
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
7/25	5,000	1,524	Asphalt
2/20	3,658	1,115	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			16,800
Based aircraft			31
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Boscobel Airport^[1]^[2] (ICAO: KOVS, FAA LID: OVS), also known as Boscobel Municipal Airport^[3] is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Boscobel, a city in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned OVS by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.^[4]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Boscobel Airport covers an area of 382 acres (155 ha) at an elevation of 673 feet (205 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 7/25 measuring 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 by 23 m) and 2/20 measuring 3,658 by 58 ft. (1,115 by 18 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 7, 2005, the airport had 16,800 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per day: 95% general aviation, 3% military and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 31 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single-engine and 10% multi-engine.^[1]