Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport Explained

Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport
Icao:KIOB
Faa:IOB
Type:Public
Owner:Mount Sterling & Montgomery County
City-Served:Mount Sterling, Kentucky
Elevation-F:1,019
Elevation-M:311
Coordinates:38.0581°N -83.9794°W
Pushpin Map:USA Kentucky#USA
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Kentucky
Pushpin Label:IOB
R1-Number:3/21
R1-Length-F:5,000
R1-Length-M:1,525
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2022
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations (year ending 6/21/2022)
Stat1-Data:39,918
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:78
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Mount Sterling, a city in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States. It is owned by the city of Mount Sterling and Montgomery County.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IOB by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport covers an area of 53acres at an elevation of 1,019 feet (311 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 3/21 which measures 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 21, 2022, the airport had 39,918 aircraft operations, an average of 109 per day: 86% general aviation, 12% air taxi and 2% military. At that time there were 78 aircraft based at this airport: 59 single-engine, 13 multi-engine, 2 jet and 4 helicopter.

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Notes and References

  1. , effective December 28, 2023.
  2. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KIOB Great Circle Mapper: KIOB - Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport