# Southeast Iowa Regional Airport (BRL / KBRL)

**Southeast Iowa Regional Airport** (IATA: BRL, ICAO: KBRL) is a medium airport in Burlington, Iowa, United States. It opened in 1929. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,102 ft (1,860 m). In 2025 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbrl

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BRL / KBRL
- FAA: BRL
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Burlington, Iowa, United States
- Opened: 1929
- Elevation: 699 ft / 213 m
- Coordinates: 40.7832, -91.1255
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,102 ft / 1,860 m
- Instrument procedures: 6 approaches
- Passengers: 8,905 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://flybrl.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Iowa_Regional_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7569353
- Weather station: KBRL · WMO 72542
- Ident: KBRL

## Timeline

- 1929: Southeast Iowa Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 18/36 | 6,102 ft / 1,860 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 180° / 360° | yes |
| 12/30 | 5,351 ft / 1,631 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 120° / 300° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00069AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 13,377 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 13,253 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 14,915 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 16,704 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 15,627 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 5,306 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 7,049 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 7,156 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 7,645 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 7,596 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 8,905 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [ORD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kord.md) Chicago O'Hare International Airport · United States · 186 mi / 300 km · Contour Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BRL, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- LF [Contour Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/contour-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 9K (2025) | #2,733 of 3,974 | #669 in North America | #472 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,102 ft / 1,860 m | =4,394 of 29,858 | =1,173 in North America | =912 in US |
| Elevation | 699 ft / 213 m | =23,489 of 43,403 | =11,204 in North America | =9,272 in US |
| Age | Opened 1929 | =369 of 15,079 | =78 in North America | =75 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 118.025 |
| CNTR | CHICAGO CNTR | 135.600 |
| RDO | FORT DODGE RDO | 122.650 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.000 |

## Nearby airports

- [MLI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmli.md) Quad City International Airport · 56 mi / 90 km
- [UIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kuin.md) Quincy Regional Airport Baldwin Field · 58 mi / 94 km
- [OTM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kotm.md) Ottumwa Regional Airport · 73 mi / 117 km
- [PIA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kpia.md) General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport · 75 mi / 121 km
- [CID](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kcid.md) The Eastern Iowa Airport · 82 mi / 132 km
- [IRK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kirk.md) Kirksville Regional Airport · 89 mi / 143 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Southeast Iowa Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southeast_Iowa_Regional_Airport&oldid=1373228488), revision of 4 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbrl/data