Capitol Airport | |
Faa: | 02C |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC |
City-Served: | Brookfield, Wisconsin |
Timezone: | CST |
Summer: | CDT |
Elevation-F: | 844 |
Elevation-M: | 257 |
Coordinates: | 43.0897°N -88.1794°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Wisconsin#USA |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Wisconsin |
Pushpin Label: | 02C |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
R1-Number: | 3/21 |
R1-Length-F: | 2,994 |
R1-Length-M: | 913 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 9/27 |
R2-Length-F: | 3,387 |
R2-Length-M: | 1,033 |
R2-Surface: | Turf |
R3-Number: | 18/36 |
R3-Length-F: | 1,602 |
R3-Length-M: | 488 |
R3-Surface: | Turf |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (2022) |
Stat1-Data: | 13,010 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft (2024) |
Stat2-Data: | 116 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Capitol Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Brookfield, a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is privately owned by Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC. The airport is also known as, or formerly known as, Capitol Drive Airport.
It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029, in which it is categorized as a regional reliever airport facility.[2]
Capitol Airport covers an area of 207acres at an elevation of 844 feet (257 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 3/21 which measures 2,994 x 45 ft. (913 x 13 m), plus two turf runways: 9/27 measuring 3,387 x 100 ft. (1,033 x 30 m) and 18/36 measuring 1,602 x 80 ft. (488 x 24 m).
The facility has no published instrument procedures and no instrument navigational aids.
For the 12-month period ending July 22, 2022, the airport had 13,010 aircraft operations, an average of 36 per day: 99% general aviation and less than 1% military. In August 2024, there were 116 aircraft based at this airport: 107 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, 1 jet and 6 helicopter.
Brookfield Aero, LLC is the fixed-base operator.