# Houghton County Memorial Airport (CMX / KCMX)

**Houghton County Memorial Airport** (IATA: CMX, ICAO: KCMX) is a medium airport in Hancock, Michigan, United States. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,501 ft (1,982 m). In 2025 it handled 61 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: CMX / KCMX
- FAA: CMX
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Hancock, Michigan, United States
- Elevation: 1,095 ft / 334 m
- Coordinates: 47.1684, -88.4891
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,501 ft / 1,982 m
- Instrument procedures: 7 approaches
- Passengers: 60,547 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/Detroit
- Website: http://www.houghtoncounty.org/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_County_Memorial_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3206803
- Weather station: KCMX · WMO 72744
- Ident: KCMX

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14/32 | 6,501 ft / 1,982 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 131° / 311° | yes |
| 07/25 | 5,201 ft / 1,585 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 067° / 247° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00896AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 50,781 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 50,392 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 48,906 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 47,464 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 49,168 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 23,615 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 41,640 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 44,646 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 46,779 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 51,756 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 60,547 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

3 destinations 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 · 360 mi / 579 km · United Express

### Cargo (2)

- [MSN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmsn.md) Dane County Regional Truax Field · United States · 281 mi / 453 km · FedEx Express
- [MKE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmke.md) General Mitchell International Airport · United States · 293 mi / 472 km · FedEx Express

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- UA [United Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/united-express) · 1

### Cargo (1)

- FX [FedEx Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fedex-express) · 2

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 61K (2025) | #2,009 of 3,974 | #461 in North America | #311 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,501 ft / 1,982 m | =4,075 of 29,858 | =1,009 in North America | =768 in US |
| Elevation | 1,095 ft / 334 m | =16,322 of 43,403 | =7,174 in North America | =5,680 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 125.675 |
| CNTR | MINNEAPOLIS CNTR | 127.200 |
| RDO | GREEN BAY RDO | 122.525 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.700 |

## Nearby airports

- [79MI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/79mi.md) Pike River Landing · 13 mi / 21 km
- [2P4](https://dromopedia.com/airports/2p4.md) Baraga Airport · 27 mi / 43 km
- [6Y9](https://dromopedia.com/airports/6y9.md) Prickett-Grooms Field · 47 mi / 75 km
- [KOGM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kogm.md) Ontonagon County Schuster Field · 47 mi / 76 km
- [M61](https://dromopedia.com/airports/m61.md) Edward F Johnson Airport · 66 mi / 106 km
- [39MI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/39mi.md) Huber Airport · 71 mi / 114 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: “Houghton County Memorial Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Houghton_County_Memorial_Airport&oldid=1370428128), revision of 21 Aug 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/kcmx/data