The Eastern Iowa Airport
CID · KCID · Cedar Rapids, Iowa · Linn County · map
The Eastern Iowa Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cedar Rapids, 6 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 869 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 8,600 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 128 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The receiver network heard 21 different aircraft arrive or depart here in the last seven days. The FAA counts about 42,860 takeoffs and landings a year. About 748,748 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for The Eastern Iowa Airport?
Its FAA code is CID, and its ICAO code is KCID.
Where is The Eastern Iowa Airport?
It is 6 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 869 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at The Eastern Iowa Airport?
The longest of its 2 runways, 09/27, is 8,600 feet long.
Does The Eastern Iowa Airport have a control tower?
Yes, it has a control tower.
What fuel can you buy at The Eastern Iowa Airport?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A.
Where can you fly nonstop from The Eastern Iowa Airport?
Airline flights go to 8 airports, the busiest of them Chicago O'Hare International, Dallas-Fort Worth International, Denver International, Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain, Phoenix Sky Harbor International. Every route
Are there flight schools at The Eastern Iowa Airport?
5 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Executive Aero Flight Club LLC and Cloud 9 Flying Club INC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to The Eastern Iowa Airport?
3 pilot examiners and 8 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for The Eastern Iowa Airport…
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.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CID · ICAO KCID
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cedar Rapids
- Elevation
- 869 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 5:00 am to 11:30 pm
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 5:00 am to 11:30 pm; weekends, 5:00 am to 11:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 8,600 × 150 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 6,200 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 8,175 ft available for landing
- Runway 27: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 425 ft, 8,175 ft available for landing, rr 14 ft high 740 ft from the end
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31: VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.7 | Cedar Rapids |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 124.15 | Cedar Rapids |
| Approach (secondary) · Clearance delivery | 119.05 | Cedar Rapids |
| Clearance delivery | 125.45 | Cedar Rapids |
| Ground | 121.6 | Cedar Rapids |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 091 to 269 | 119.7 | Cedar Rapids |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace · Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) arriving from headings 270 to 090 | 134.05 | Cedar Rapids |
| Cedar Rapids Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.8 | Cedar Rapids |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 319-558-5153.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Marion Airport (12 nm northeast), Iowa City Municipal (16 nm southeast), Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark (24 nm northwest).
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
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- When tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 09, 27 and 31; PAPI runway 09, 13 and 27; VASI runway 31; high-intensity runway lights runway 09/27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service; west of general aviation apron.
- Runway 27 calm wind runway.
- When the control tower is closed and durg snow and ice all arrival and departure annc intns on the common traffic frequency 5 minimums bfr runway use. Paew SN and ice removal mnt the common traffic frequency.
- Gate 5 and area north/northwest closed.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
Within ten miles
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 11,070 departures from CID in those twelve months, carrying 826,033 passengers in 1,025,624 seats (81% filled), to 84 destinations on 27 airlines.
All 84 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 112 |
| multi-engine | 4 |
| jets | 11 |
| helicopters | 1 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 42,860, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 16,771 |
| air taxi and commuter | 4,092 |
| general aviation, travelling | 12,748 |
| general aviation, local | 8,912 |
| military | 337 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Cedar Rapids from the FAA register
117 aircraft are registered to owners in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 88 piston singles, 11 business jets, 9 balloons, 4 piston twins, 2 turboprops. 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, 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:
- Executive Aero Flight Club LLC 2 aircraft · Cedar Rapids Executive Aero Club is a private, members-only Cirrus Training Center based at Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a second location at Ankeny Airport.
- Cloud 9 Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Cedar Rapids
- Green Castle Aero Club LTD 4 aircraft · Oxford, 12 miles away
- Fugarwe Flyers 1 aircraft · Oxford, 12 miles away Future Flyers of Iowa is a flight school located at Winterset Municipal Airport in Winterset, Iowa.
- Yankee Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Mount Vernon, 15 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Cedar Rapids:
- Jet There LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate Jet There is a private air charter operator based at Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Repair stations in Cedar Rapids:
- Rockwell Collins INC
- Rockwell Collins INC Air Transport Systems
- Rockwell Collins INC Aircraft Certification Cent
- Rockwell Collins INC Government Systems
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.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
3 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 3 for private pilot, 1 for commercial and instrument, 2 for flight instructor, 1 for sport pilot; 2 for airplanes, 1 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 8 aviation medical examiners, 2 mechanic examiners, 5 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 1 engineering representative.
- Cole Robert Norton private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Cedar Rapids, IA (0 nm) · (319) 981-7768 · [email protected]
- Janice Wray Walton private pilot; airplanes · Marion Airport/C17 · Marion, IA (12 nm) · (319) 721-3994 · [email protected]
- Thomas Paul Burns private pilot, flight instructor, commercial pilot; gliders · Muscatine, IA (40 nm) · (563) 299-5942 · [email protected]
All 19 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 23 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Cedar Rapids 117 aircraft · 88 piston singles, 11 business jets, 9 balloons
- Buzzards Glory Balloon CO LLC 8 aircraft in town
- Cassill Aircraft Leasing INC 4 aircraft in town
- Rockwell Collins Leasing LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Jet There LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Jet There LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Executive Aero Flight Club LLC 2 aircraft · flying club
- Cloud 9 Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Green Castle Aero Club LTD 4 aircraft · flying club
- Rockwell Collins INC · repair station
- Rockwell Collins INC Air Transport Systems · repair station
- Rockwell Collins INC Aircraft Certification Cent · repair station
- Rockwell Collins INC Government Systems · repair station
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 3,476 flights in twelve months · Envoy Air, SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) 1,143 flights in twelve months · Envoy Air, American Airlines Inc.
- Denver International (DEN) 1,121 flights in twelve months · United Air Lines Inc., SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain (MSP) 1,056 flights in twelve months · Endeavor Air Inc., SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) 761 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc., Envoy Air
- Charlotte/Douglas International (CLT) 448 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., PSA Airlines Inc.
- Des Moines International (DSM) 388 flights in twelve months · Federal Express Corporation, United Parcel Service
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 360 flights in twelve months · Delta Air Lines Inc.
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 23 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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 4,504 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CID.json.
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 26, 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.