Lansing Municipal Airport

Lansing Municipal Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KIGQ FAA LID: IGQ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Village of Lansing
Serves	Chicago, Illinois
Location	Lansing, Illinois
Opened	April 1940 (1940-04)
Elevation AMSL	620 ft / 189 m
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9/27 3,395 1,035 Asphalt 18/36 4,002 1,220 Asphalt
Statistics (2004)
Aircraft operations 54,000 Based aircraft (2016) 143
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Ford Airport Hangar
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Ford Hangar in May 2012
Location	3250 Bob Malkas Drive Lansing, Illinois
Coordinates	41°32′33″N 87°32′18″W / 41.54250°N 87.53833°W / 41.54250; -87.53833
Built	1926
Architect	Albert Kahn
NRHP Reference #	85001009
Added to NRHP	May 9, 1985

Coordinates: 41°32′06″N 087°31′46″W / 41.53500°N 87.52944°W / 41.53500; -87.52944

Lansing Municipal Airport (ICAO: KIGQ, FAA LID: IGQ) is 21 miles south of Chicago, in Lansing, a village in Cook County, Illinois. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Lansing Municipal Airport is IGQ to the FAA and has no IATA code.

Lansing Municipal Airport covers 650 acres (260 ha) and has two asphalt runways: 9/27 is 3,395 x 75 ft (1,035 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 4,002 x 75 ft (1,220 x 23 m). It also houses a blimp base which launches 1/4 of the blimps that cover Chicago sporting events.

In 2004 the airport totalled 54,000 aircraft operations, average 147 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. In November 2016, 143 aircraft were based at this airport: 113 single engine, 15 multi-engine, 5 jet, 9 helicopter and 1 ultralight.