Rock Rapids Municipal
RRQ · KRRQ · Rock Rapids, Iowa · Lyon County · map
Rock Rapids Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Rock Rapids, 2 miles northwest of Rock Rapids, Iowa, 1,363 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,097 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RRQ · ICAO KRRQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Rock Rapids
- Elevation
- 1,363 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1961
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,097 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 300 ft, tree 51 ft high 1,107 ft from the end
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 300 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.9 | |
| Sioux Falls Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.05 |
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 Rock Rapids from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Rock Rapids, Iowa: 7 piston singles, 6 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Runway 34 is calm wind runway.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runways 16 and 34; medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34; PAPI runways 16 and 34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 16 +15 feet road 155 feet dstc on centerline.
- +16 feet road 1 30 feet dstc L/R.
- Clnc 16:1 from displaced thld to tree.
- Approach slope 26:1 to displaced thld from 16 feet road 430 feet from displaced thld L/R.
- Caution: migratory waterfowl adjacent movement areas.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.