MCW

Mason City Municipal Airport

ICAO KMCW43.1598°N 93.3297°W1,213 ft / 370 mMedium airport
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Mason City Municipal Airport (IATA: MCW, ICAO: KMCW) is a medium airport in Mason City, Iowa, United States. It opened in Mar 1943. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,501 ft (1,982 m). In 2025 it handled 17 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943
MAR 1943
OpenedMason City Municipal Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
18/36180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH6,501 ft1,982 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
12/30125° / 305° · LIT
LENGTH5,502 ft1,677 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
13K
16K
15K
17K
16K
7K
16K
19K
17K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MCW. From the Wikipedia article “Mason City Municipal Airport” (revision of 23 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers17K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,499of 3,974 · #591 North America · #408 USLongest runway6,501 ft1,982 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,074of 29,823 · =1,009 North America · =768 USElevation1,213 ft370 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#14,832of 43,341 · #6,425 North America · #5,016 USAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
ASOSASOS120.300
CNTRMINNEAPOLIS CNTR127.300
RDOFORT DODGE RDO122.600
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000