Emmetsburg Municipal
EGQ · KEGQ · Emmetsburg, Iowa · Palo Alto County · map
Emmetsburg Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Emmetsburg, 1 mile southwest of Emmetsburg, Iowa, 1,206 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 3,401 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 12 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 2,500 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA EGQ · ICAO KEGQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Emmetsburg
- Elevation
- 1,206 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,401 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 62 ft high 1,371 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Fairmont and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.75 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,500, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Emmetsburg from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Emmetsburg, Iowa: 8 piston singles, 2 drones. 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 · 1 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31, runway end identifier lights and PAPI runways 13 and 31 - the common traffic frequency.
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.