Airport type Public Website www.CapeAirport.com Elevation 104 m | Elevation AMSL 342 ft / 104 m Code CGI Phone +1 573-334-6230 | |
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Address 860 Limbaugh Dr, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701, USA Similar Cape Regional Credit Un, Greyhound, Havco Wood Products, Rhodes 101 Stop Profiles | ||
Cape girardeau regional airport
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (IATA: CGI, ICAO: KCGI, FAA LID: CGI) is a city-owned, public-use airport in Scott County, Missouri, United States. It located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of the central business district of Cape Girardeau, a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The airport is used for general aviation, and has scheduled service by American Airlines partner Cape Air with subsidized Essential Air Service program flights to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
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As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 443 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 978 enplanements in 2009, and 4,862 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport based on 2008/2009 enplanements (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).
Facilities and aircraft
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport covers an area of 557 acres (225 ha) at an elevation of 342 feet (104 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 10/28 is 6,500 by 150 feet (1,981 x 46 m) with a concrete surface; 2/20 is 3,997 by 100 feet (1,218 x 30 m) with an asphalt/concrete surface.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 24,250 aircraft operations, an average of 66 per day: 86% general aviation, 12% scheduled commercial, and 3% military. At that time there were 44 aircraft based at this airport: 68% single-engine, 18% multi-engine, 9% jet, and 5% helicopter.
Airline and destination
The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:
History
Opened in 1943, the airport was constructed by the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Harris Army Airfield, the airfield was a primary (stage 1) pilot training airfield assigned to AAF Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command). It was operated under contract to Cape Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., with the civil instructors under the USAAF 73d Flying Training Detachment. Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer at the airfield.
Contract flying training was short at the airfield, the school closing during the late summer of 1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).