Boone Municipal
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Boone Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Boone, 2 miles southeast of Boone, Iowa, 1,160 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 15/33, is 4,808 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, car gas (mogas)).
Weather right now KBNW · observed 4:15 pm CDT (21:15 UTC), 6 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (210°) at 8 knots, gusting to 17
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 84°F (29°C), dew point 57°F (14°C)
- Altimeter 29.82 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KBNW 062115Z AUTO 21008G17KT 10SM CLR 29/14 A2982 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BNW · ICAO KBNW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Boone
- Elevation
- 1,160 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, car gas (mogas)
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1949
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 4,808 × 75 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 02/20 | 3,248 × 146 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 15: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 140 ft, 4,667 ft available for landing, tree 41 ft high 1,026 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 02: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 20: tree 50 ft high 1,430 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.9 | |
| Bnw and aWOS-3 | 120.925 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 515-432-9042.
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 Boone from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Boone, Iowa: 6 piston singles, 3 drones, 3 balloons. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 15; PAPI runway 15 and 33; medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency.
- Joe pundzak
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- 28:1 to dthr.
- Unatndd holidays and when ceiling less than 400 feet or visibility less than 1 MI.
- Runway 02/20 no snow removal, runway closed when snow conditions exist.
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.