James H Connell Field AT Independence Municipal
IIB · KIIB · Independence, Iowa · Buchanan County · map
James H Connell Field AT Independence Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Independence, 3 miles southwest of Independence, Iowa, 979 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,500 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA IIB · ICAO KIIB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Independence
- Elevation
- 979 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1967
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,500 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure · Waterloo and center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.9 | |
| Iib and aWOS-3 | 120.825 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 319-334-3879.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Independence from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Independence, Iowa: 11 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. 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 · 5 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
- Paew performing snow removal operations will monitor the common traffic frequency.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset low intst; to activate higher intst and runway end identifier lightss and PAPI runways 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- City clerk susi lampe
- Agricultural operations durg summer months.
- Runway 36 is calm wind runway.
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.