Cape Girardeau Regional
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Cape Girardeau Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cape Girardeau, 5 miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 342 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 6,500 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 76 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 34,516 takeoffs and landings a year. About 8,571 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KCGI · observed 4:53 pm CDT (21:53 UTC), 59 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east-northeast (070°) at 4 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 78°F (26°C), dew point 43°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 29.99 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 3:24 pm CDT (20:24 UTC), good until Wed 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 3:00 pm CDT (20:00 UTC): wind from the east at 6 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 8:00 pm CDT (01:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- At times between Wed 3:00 am CDT (08:00 UTC) and 7:00 am CDT (12:00 UTC): visibility 1 mile, mist, clear skies IFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KCGI 062153Z 07004KT 10SM CLR 26/06 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP152 T02560061
TAF KCGI 062024Z 0620/0718 10006KT P6SM SKC FM070100 00000KT P6SM SKC TEMPO 0708/0712 1SM BR SKC
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 CGI · ICAO KCGI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cape Girardeau
- Elevation
- 342 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 7:00 pm mon-fri; 7:00 am to 5:00 pm sat-sun
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 6:00 am to 7:00 pm; weekends, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 6,500 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 02/20 | 3,997 × 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 28: VASI, two boxes on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), tree 160 ft high 5,600 ft from the end
- Runway 02: VASI, four boxes on the left, tree 70 ft high 1,500 ft from the end
- Runway 20: VASI, four boxes on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 125.525 | Cape Girardeau |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Ground | 124.7 | Cape Girardeau |
| Cgi and automated weather (ASOS) | 120.55 | |
| Cape Girardeau Rco | 122.4 | Cape Girardeau |
| Paducah and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.65 | Cape Girardeau |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 573-335-3811.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 34,516, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Cape Girardeau from the FAA register
32 aircraft are registered to owners in Cape Girardeau, Missouri: 13 piston singles, 9 drones, 4 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 piston twins. 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 Missouri.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 5 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
- (E110) standby gen for FAA facility only
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 10; odals runway 28; high-intensity runway lights runway 10/28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 02/20 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Northern 100 feet taxiway 'C' not visible from control tower.
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.