Airport type Public Serves Boonville, Missouri 18/36 4,000 Phone +1 660-882-7441 | Owner City of Boonville Elevation AMSL 715 ft / 218 m Elevation 218 m | |
Location Windsor Place, Missouri Address 20044 Pearre Ln, Boonville, MO 65233, USA Similar Sugar Branch, Columbia Regional Airport, White Cloud Flying Field, Walmart Supercen, Disability Center University | ||
Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport (ICAO: KVER, FAA LID: VER), also known as Jesse P. Viertel Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of Boonville, a city in Cooper County, Missouri, United States. It is home to the Daniel Boone Flying Club, which serves central Missouri.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport is assigned VER by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned VER to General Heriberto Jara International Airport in Veracruz, Mexico).
On November 30, 2014 a small plane crashed during landing at (Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport). The plane crash landed into a field about 1/2 mile south of the runway. The pilot was killed and three passengers were taken to a nearby hospital in Columbia, Missouri. On December 17, 2014 it was released that there was battery failure. This caused the plane to shut down. They were unable to make it to the runway in time.
Facilities and aircraft
Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport covers an area of 125 acres (51 ha) which contains one runway designated 18/36 with a 3,999 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2006, the airport had 9,080 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 92% general aviation (8,380), 4% air taxi (400), 3% military (300).