| Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport | |
| Iata: | AUZ |
| Icao: | KARR |
| Faa: | ARR |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner-Oper: | City of Aurora |
| City-Served: | Chicago metropolitan area |
| Location: | Sugar Grove, Illinois |
| Elevation-F: | 712 |
| Elevation-M: | 217 |
| Coordinates: | 41.7719°N -88.4756°W |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Illinois#USA |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Illinois |
| Pushpin Label: | AUZ/KARR/ARR |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| R1-Number: | 9/27 |
| R1-Length-F: | 6,501 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,982 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| R2-Number: | 15/33 |
| R2-Length-F: | 5,503 |
| R2-Length-M: | 1,677 |
| R2-Surface: | Concrete |
| R3-Number: | 18/36 |
| R3-Length-F: | 3,198 |
| R3-Length-M: | 975 |
| R3-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (2022) |
| Stat1-Data: | 76,885 |
| Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft (2022) |
| Stat2-Data: | 197 |
| Footnotes: | Source: FAA[1] |
| Image Map Caption: | FAA airport diagram |
Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is a public airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States, 8miles west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 50miles west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.[2]
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for both the FAA and IATA, Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to Alto Río Senguer Airport in Argentina). The airport's ICAO identifier is KARR.[3] [4]
The airport is home to the Air Classics museum of Aviation, which strives to preserve aviation's role throughout history.[5]
Aurora Municipal Airport covers an area of, and contains three runways:
For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2022, the airport had 76,650 aircraft operations, an average of 210 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi, <1% military, and <1% commercial. For the same time period, there are 197 aircraft based on the field: 144 single-engine and 23 multi-engine airplanes, 24 jets, 5 helicopters, and 1 glider.[6] [7]
J.A. Air Center and Revv Aviation are the airport's two fixed-base operators (FBOs). Together, they offer services such as fuel, general maintenance, hangars, courtesy cars and shuttles, conference rooms, crew lounges, snooze rooms, and more. They also offer flight training, aircraft rentals, and charter service businesses.[8] [9] [10] [11]
The airport received money from the Rebuild Illinois program, designed in 2021 to help airports complete upgrades and stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, to rehabilitate parking lots, the entrance road, and perimeter roadways. In late 2022, the airport authority approved plans to upgrade hangars and other facilities.[12] [13]