Tama Airport
53IA · Tama, Iowa · Tama County · map
Tama Airport is a private airport owned by Tama Airways, INC, 1 mile south of Tama, Iowa, 814 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 2,500 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 53IA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Tama Airways, INC
- Elevation
- 814 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 600 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 2,500 × 130 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 02: power line 48 ft high 1,250 ft from the end
- Runway 20: trees 65 ft high 640 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Tama from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Tama, IA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
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 5, 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.