Drake Airport
47IA · Radcliffe, Iowa · Hardin County · map
Drake Airport is a private airport, 1 mile east of Radcliffe, Iowa, 1,179 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,480 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 47IA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,179 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1959
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,480 × 90 ft | Grass, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 09: trees 55 ft high 372 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Iowa Falls Municipal (11 nm northeast), Webster City Municipal (21 nm west), Ames Municipal (22 nm southwest), Boone Municipal (25 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Iowa Falls Municipal (11 nm northeast), Webster City Municipal (21 nm west), Ames Municipal (22 nm southwest), Boone Municipal (25 nm southwest).
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
- Provided approach to each runway is maintained for a minimum 20:1 glide slope and the transitional surface be maintained for a 7:1 slope.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - 122.8.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; solid clear; thld lights solid green.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Radcliffe from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Radcliffe, Iowa: 3 piston singles, 1 balloon. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
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
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Road Runner Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Radcliffe, 1 mile away
- Cherokee Flyers Lc 1 aircraft · Ellsworth, 9 miles away Cherokee Flyers is a Part 61 aeroclub founded in 1999 that provides flight training and aircraft rentals at Volk Field (KVRB) in Ellsworth, Iowa.
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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Radcliffe 4 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 1 balloons
- Road Runner Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Cherokee Flyers Lc 1 aircraft · flight school
- 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 4,509 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/47IA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.