Traer Municipal
8C6 · Traer, Iowa · Tama County · map
Traer Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Traer, 1 mile northeast of Traer, Iowa, 892 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,555 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8C6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Traer
- Elevation
- 892 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1961
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,555 × 100 ft | Grass, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: trees 70 ft high 806 ft from the end
- Runway 35: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 80 ft high 1,689 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Traer from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Traer, Iowa: 2 piston singles, 2 drones, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 17/35 marked with yellow cones.
- Grass runway soft during spring thaw.
- Parallel taxiway is marked and lighted along east edge.
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.