Skyhaven Airport (Missouri)

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Coordinates: 38°47′03″N 093°48′10″W / 38.78417, -93.80278

Skyhaven Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KRCM – FAA: RCM
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		University of Central Missouri
Serves		Warrensburg, Missouri
Elevation AMSL		798 ft / 243 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
13/31	2,801	854	Asphalt
18/36	4,206	1,282	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Aircraft operations			74,325
Based aircraft			46
Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Skyhaven Airport (ICAO: KRCM, FAA LID: RCM) is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district of Warrensburg, a city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. It is owned by the University of Central Missouri.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Skyhaven Airport is assigned RCM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned RCM to Richmond Airport in Richmond, Queensland, Australia^[3]).

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Skyhaven Airport covers an area of 402 acres (163 ha) which contains two asphalt paved runways: 18/36 measuring 4,206 x 75 ft. (1,282 x 23 m) and 13/31 measuring 2,801 x 60 ft. (854 x 18 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2005, the airport had 74,325 aircraft operations, an average of 203 per day: 99.6% general aviation, 0.4% air taxi and <0.1% military. At that time there were 46 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single-engine, 13% multi-engine and 7% glider.^[1]