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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1975
Runway
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
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Iowa City Municipal (5 nm southwest), The Eastern Iowa Airport (14 nm northwest), Marion Airport (19 nm north), Muscatine Municipal (26 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Iowa City Municipal (5 nm southwest), The Eastern Iowa Airport (14 nm northwest), Mathews Memorial (16 nm east), Marion Airport (19 nm north).
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
- Provided trees are topped or removed or the runway threshold displaced to provide a 20:1 clear glide slope.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Iowa City from the FAA register
102 aircraft are registered to owners in Iowa City, Iowa: 79 piston singles, 10 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:
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:
- Jet Air INC 45 aircraft · Iowa City, 5 miles away Jet Air, Inc.
- State University of Iowa 4 aircraft · Iowa City, 5 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Iowa City:
- Jet Air Inc. 7 aircraft on the certificate Jet Air, Inc.
- Jet Air LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate Jet Air, Inc.
Repair stations in Iowa City:
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.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Iowa City 102 aircraft · 79 piston singles, 10 business jets, 6 helicopters
- Jet Air INC 41 aircraft in town
- State of Iowa 5 aircraft in town
- State University of Iowa 4 aircraft in town
- Vintage Props LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Jet Air Inc. 7 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Jet Air LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Jet Air INC 45 aircraft · flight school
- State University of Iowa 4 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Jet Air INC · repair station
- 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 4,510 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IA16.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.