Aurora Municipal Airport Explained

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]

Facilities and aircraft

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]

Incidents

Gallery

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See also

External links


Notes and References

  1. , effective Jan 5, 2017.
  2. http://www.auroraairport.com/ Aurora Municipal Airport
  3. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/AUZ Great Circle Mapper: AUZ / KARR - Chicago/Aurora, Illinois (Aurora Municipal Airport)
  4. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/ARR Great Circle Mapper: ARR / SAVR - Alto Rio Senguerr, Argentina (D. Casimiro Szlapelis Airport)
  5. Web site: Learn More About The Air Classics Museum. 2022-11-22 . Air Classics Inc Museum of Aviation.
  6. Web site: AirNav: KARR – Aurora Municipal Airport. 2022-11-22 . AirNav.com.
  7. Web site: ARR – Aurora Municipal Airport. 2022-11-22 . SkyVector.
  8. Web site: J.A. Air Center. 2022-11-22 . FlightAware.
  9. Web site: revv Aviation. 2022-11-22 . FlightAware.
  10. Web site: REVV AURORA. 2022-11-22 . Revv Aurora.
  11. Web site: About JA Flight Training. 2022-11-22 . JA Flight Center.
  12. Web site: Holmes: $1.6 million in state funding coming for Aurora Municipal Airport upgrades. 2022-11-22 . Illinois Senate Democrats.
  13. Web site: Airport planning improvement projects. 2022-11-22 . Aurora News-Register.
  14. News: WWII bomber crashes near Aurora, all 7 aboard said to be OK . 2011-06-13 . Chicago Tribune . Gerry . Smith . Cynthia . Dizikes.
  15. Web site: Airport Master Record . 13 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150713233906/http://www.gcr1.com/5010web/REPORTS/AFD06252015ARR.pdf . 13 July 2015 .