Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark
VTI · KVTI · Vinton, Iowa · Benton County · map
Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark is a public-use airport owned by the City of Vinton, 3 miles north of Vinton, Iowa, 842 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 4,000 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, car gas (mogas)) and about 21 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,751 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KVTI · observed 6:55 pm CDT (23:55 UTC), 14 minutes ago
MVFR flyable but watch the ceiling and visibility
- Wind from the south (190°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 4 miles
- Weather: haze
- Temperature 72°F (22°C), dew point 54°F (12°C)
- Altimeter 29.83 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KVTI 062355Z AUTO 19005KT 4SM HZ CLR 22/12 A2983 RMK AO2 10275 20217
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VTI · ICAO KVTI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Vinton
- Elevation
- 842 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, car gas (mogas)
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1964
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,000 × 60 ft | Concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 16/34 | 2,500 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 27: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 190 ft, trees 36 ft high 484 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.05 | |
| Vti and aWOS-3 | 120.075 | |
| Cedar Rapids Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.8 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 319-472-3122.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,751, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Vinton from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Vinton, Iowa: 14 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 drone. 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 · 6 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 16/34 closed nights and used as taxiway from runway 09/27 to ramp.
- Pilot controled medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27; to activate and activate PAPI runways 09 and 27 and runway end identifier lights runways 09 and 27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service fuel available 24 hours.
- Self service fuel available 24 hours.
- Self service fuel available 24 hours.
- Runway 34 approach 18:1 at dthr.
- Wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- 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.