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Too Short Airport

IA11 · Indianola, Iowa · Warren County · map

Too Short Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southwest of Indianola, Iowa, 976 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 1,000 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes
FAA IA11
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
976 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
every day, daylight hours
On the chart
Omaha sectional
Magnetic variation
3E
In the FAA's files since
May 1995

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

NSN500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
N/S1,000 × 60 ftGrass

Aircraft registered in Indianola from the FAA register

80 aircraft are registered to owners in Indianola, Iowa: 41 balloons, 32 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 2 drones, 1 piston twin. 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:

Des Moines Flying Club LLC 5Agri-Tech Aviation INC 3Aeroplanes2 LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

  • Provided approach to each runway 20:1 glide slope and transitional surface at a 7:1 slope.

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.