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Picayune Airport

IA16 · Iowa City, Iowa · Johnson County · map

Picayune Airport is a private airport, 2 miles north of Iowa City, Iowa, 800 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 1,800 feet of grass.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA IA16
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 800 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: Chicago sectional
Magnetic variation: 2E
In the FAA's files since: April 1975

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
06/24	1,800 × 75 ft	Grass

Runway 06: threshold displaced 100 ft
Runway 24: threshold displaced 100 ft

Aircraft registered in Iowa City from the FAA register

103 aircraft are registered to owners in Iowa City, Iowa: 78 piston singles, 12 business jets, 6 helicopters, 4 piston twins, 3 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:

Jet Air INC 39 State of Iowa 5State University of Iowa 4Vintage Props LLC 2University of Iowa 2State of Iowa University of Iowa 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

Iowa City Municipal IOW · 5 nm southwest The Eastern Iowa Airport CID · 14 nm northwest Mathews Memorial 8C4 · 16 nm east Amana Airport C11 · 17 nm west Marion Airport C17 · 19 nm north Muscatine Municipal MUT · 26 nm southeast Washington Municipal AWG · 27 nm south Blackberry Ridge Heliport IA03 · 1 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided trees are topped or removed or the runway threshold displaced to provide a 20:1 clear glide 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.