Husband Field
39IA · Dallas Center, Iowa · Dallas County · map
Husband Field is a private airport, 3 miles west of Dallas Center, Iowa, 1,010 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,400 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 39IA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,010 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,400 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 790 ft, fence on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Also here
- crop spraying
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Perry Municipal (11 nm northwest), Des Moines International (18 nm southeast), Winterset Municipal (19 nm south), Ankeny Regional (20 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Perry Municipal (11 nm northwest), Des Moines International (18 nm southeast), Winterset Municipal (19 nm south), Guthrie County Regional (19 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Iowa · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Runway 17/35 unusable after heavy rains.
- +45' power line at 1700' approach ratio 50-1 from displaced threshold.
- Ultralight on and in the vicinity of airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Dallas Center from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Dallas Center, Iowa: 6 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 drones, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Dallas Center, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Solar Flying Club 1 aircraft · Grimes, 11 miles away Solar Flying Club is a non-profit, equity ownership flying club based at Ankeny Regional Airport in Ankeny, Iowa.
- Blue Sky Flying Club LLC 3 aircraft · Granger, 12 miles away Blue Skies Flying Club is a member-owned flying club based at Auburn Municipal Airport (S50) in Auburn, Washington.
- Low and Slow Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Urbandale, 13 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Dallas Center 12 aircraft · 6 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 drones
- Keller AG LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Owen Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Solar Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Blue Sky Flying Club LLC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Low and Slow Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Iowa 869 since 1982 · 129 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Iowa 112 landing places
- Iowa 4,503 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/39IA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 23, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.