Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
Airport in Scott County, Missouri
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Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (IATA: CGI, ICAO: KCGI, FAA LID: CGI) is a city owned public use airport in Scott County, Missouri, United States. It is located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of the central business district of Cape Girardeau, a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.[1] The airport is used for general aviation, and has scheduled service by Contour Airlines with subsidized Essential Air Service program flights to Chicago O’Hare Airport.
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Harris Army Airfield | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Cape Girardeau | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Scott County, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 342 ft (104 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°13′31″N 89°34′15″W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.CapeAirport.com | ||||||||||||||
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It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a commercial service - nonprimary airport based on passenger enplanements (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).[2]
Facilities and aircraft
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport covers an area of 557 acres (225 ha) at an elevation of 342 feet (104 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 10/28 is 6,500 by 150 feet (1,981 x 46 m) with a concrete surface; 2/20 is 3,997 by 100 feet (1,218 x 30 m) with an asphalt/concrete surface.[1]
For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2018, the airport had 29,106 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per day: 91% general aviation, 5% scheduled commercial, 3% air taxi and 1% military. In January 2019, there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 48 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 2 jet and 2 helicopter.[1]
Airline and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations | Refs. |
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| Contour Airlines | Chicago–O'Hare,[3] Dallas/Fort Worth[4] Seasonal: Pensacola[4] | [5] |
History
Opened in 1943, the airport was constructed by the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Harris Army Airfield, the airfield was a primary (stage 1) pilot training airfield assigned to AAF Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command). It was operated under contract to Cape Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., with the civil instructors under the USAAF 73d Flying Training Detachment. Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer at the airfield.
Contract flying training was short at the airfield, the school closing during the late summer of 1944 with the draw down of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).
In 1975 the City of Cape Girardeau was considering annexing the airport and adjacent areas. At the time, the Illmo-Scott City R-1 School District contained the airport and surrounding businesses. The school district administration feared that if the city government annexed the airport, then the airport area would also be transferred from the Illmo-Scott City school district to the Cape Girardeau School District, and in turn the Illmo-Scott City district would have reduced tax revenue.[6]
In 2018, Air Force One landed here.[7]
