Antique Airfield
IA27 · Blakesburg, Iowa · Wapello County · map
Antique Airfield is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Blakesburg, Iowa, 890 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,350 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 IA27
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 890 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,350 × 175 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: trees 20 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 36: fence on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Ottumwa Regional (10 nm northeast), Oskaloosa Municipal (16 nm north), Centerville Municipal (23 nm southwest), Fairfield Municipal (28 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Ottumwa Regional (10 nm northeast), Bloomfield Municipal (16 nm southeast), Oskaloosa Municipal (16 nm north), Centerville Municipal (23 nm southwest).
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
- Model aircraft opers on field.
- And taylor land holdings llc
- 18/36 thresholds and edges marked with rubber orange cones at 100' intervals.
- Heavy gen avn operations durg annual Antique aircraft FLY-IN.
- Airport closed winter months.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Blakesburg from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Blakesburg, Iowa: 1 piston single. 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, 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:
- Indian Hills Community College 6 aircraft · Ottumwa, 12 miles away Indian Hills Community College is a community college in southeast Iowa with three campus locations serving a 10-county area.
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 · 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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Blakesburg 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- Indian Hills Community College 6 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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 4,506 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IA27.json.
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 27, 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.