Aurora Municipal Airport

Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport
Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport
	IATA: AUZ; ICAO: KARR; FAA LID: ARR;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	City of Aurora
Serves	Chicago / Aurora
Location	Sugar Grove, Illinois
Elevation AMSL	712 ft / 217 m
Coordinates	41°46′19″N 088°28′32″W / 41.77194°N 88.47556°W
Website	Official website
Map
	ARR Location of airport in Illinois ARR ARR (the United States)
Runways
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2016)	62,072
Based aircraft (2017)	338
	Source: FAA

Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport (IATA: AUZ, ICAO: KARR, FAA LID: ARR) is a public airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States, 8 miles (13 km) west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 50 miles (80 km) west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.^[1]^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for both the FAA and IATA, Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to Alto Río Senguer, Argentina). The airport's ICAO identifier is KARR.^[3]^[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Aurora Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,100 acres (450 ha), and contains three runways:^[1]

Runway 9/27: 6,501 x 100 ft (1,982 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete
Runway 15/33: 5,503 x 100 ft (1,677 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete
Runway 18/36: 3,198 x 75 ft (975 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2016, the airport had 62,072 aircraft operations, an average of 170 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. In January 2017, there were 338 aircraft based at this airport: 242 single-engine, 63 multi-engine, 27 jet aircraft and 6 helicopters. J.A. Air Center and Lumanair are the airport's two fixed-base operators (FBO).

Incidents

On June 13, 2011, the aircraft Liberty Belle, a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed in Oswego, Illinois after taking off from Aurora. Early reports indicate that shortly after takeoff the pilot reported an engine fire, and attempted to return to the airfield. He was unable to do so, however, and chose instead to put the aircraft down in a nearby cornfield with seven people on board, all of whom were reported to be safe.^[5]