Buffalo Municipal Airport (Minnesota)

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Buffalo Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KCFE – FAA: CFE
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Buffalo
Serves		Buffalo, Minnesota
Elevation AMSL		967 ft / 295 m
Coordinates		45°09′33″N 093°50′36″W / 45.15917, -93.84333
Website		www.KCFE.org
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	2,600	792	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			22,350
Based aircraft			54
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Buffalo Municipal Airport (ICAO: KCFE, FAA LID: CFE) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two miles (3 km) southeast of the central business district of Buffalo, a city in Wright County, Minnesota, United States.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Buffalo Municipal Airport is assigned CFE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned CFE to Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France^[3]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Buffalo Municipal Airport covers an area of 57 acres (23 ha) and has one runway designated 17/35 with a 2,600 x 60 ft. (792 x 18 m) asphalt surface. For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 22,350 aircraft operations, an average of 61 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 54 aircraft based at this airport: 98% single-engine and 2% multi-engine.