Aitkin Municipal Airport

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Aitkin Municipal Airport

Steve Kurtz Field

IATA: none
ICAO: KAIT
FAA LID: AIT

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

County & City of Aitkin

Serves

Aitkin, Minnesota

Elevation AMSL

1,205 ft / 367 m

Coordinates

46°32′54″N 093°40′36″W / 46.54833°N 93.67667°W

Map

AIT

Location of airport in Minnesota/United States

AIT

AIT (the United States)

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	4,018	1,225	Asphalt
8/26	3,335	1,017	Turf

Statistics (2007)

Aircraft operations	16,000
Based aircraft	47

Source: Federal Aviation Administration^[1]

Aitkin Municipal Airport (ICAO: KAIT, FAA LID: AIT), also known as Steve Kurtz Field, is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Aitkin, a city in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by the County & City of Aitkin.^[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned AIT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA^[2] (which assigned AIT to Aitutaki, Cook Islands^[3]).

Aitkin County and the city opened the airport in the early 1950s with a single grass runway.^[4] The runway was paved and lighted in 1975.^[4]

The airport is named after the owner and founder of Steve's Flight Service, Steve Kurtz.^[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Aitkin Municipal Airport covers an area of 299 acres (121 ha) at an elevation of 1,205 feet (367 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 16/34 with a 4,018 x 75 ft (1,225 x 23 m) asphalt pavement and 8/26 with a 3,335 x 150 ft (1,017 x 46 m) turf surface.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, the airport had 16,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 43 per day. At that time there were 47 aircraft based at this airport: 94% single-engine, 4% multi-engine and 2% glider.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d FAA Airport Form 5010 for AIT PDF, effective 2008-04-10
^ Great Circle Mapper: KAIT - Aitkin, Minnesota (Aitkin Municipal Airport)
^ Great Circle Mapper: AIT / NCAI - Aitutaki, Cook Islands
^ ^a ^b ^c Foster, Tom (August 2015). "Airport of the Month". Minnesota Flyer.

External links

"Aitkin Municipal Airport (Steve Kurtz Field)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-07. at Minnesota DOT Airport Directory
Aitkin Aviation Inc., the airport's fixed-base operator
Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for AIT
- AirNav airport information for KAIT
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
- FAA Terminal Procedures for AIT, effective November 28, 2024

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