Cook Municipal
CQM · KCQM · Cook, Minnesota · St Louis County · map
Cook Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cook, 2 miles south of Cook, Minnesota, 1,329 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 23 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,950 takeoffs and landings a year. About 4 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KCQM · observed 6:55 pm CDT (23:55 UTC), 12 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 9 miles
- Temperature 61°F (16°C), dew point 50°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 29.73 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 KCQM 062355Z AUTO 00000KT 9SM CLR 16/10 A2973 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 CQM · ICAO KCQM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cook
- Elevation
- 1,329 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 42 ft high 957 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Cqm and aWOS-3 | 118.175 | |
| Duluth and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.9 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 218-666-2539.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,950, 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
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Aircraft registered in Cook from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Cook, Minnesota: 7 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 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
- Est prior to 1959.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 13 and 31; PAPI runway 13 and 31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset low sunset to sunrise; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service fuel available H24.
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.