# Mason City Municipal Airport (MCW / KMCW)

**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.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MCW / KMCW
- FAA: MCW
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Mason City, Iowa, United States
- Opened: Mar 1943
- Elevation: 1,213 ft / 370 m
- Coordinates: 43.1598, -93.3297
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,501 ft / 1,982 m
- Instrument procedures: 6 approaches
- Passengers: 17,474 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://flymcw.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_City_Municipal_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650215
- Weather station: KMCW
- Ident: KMCW

## Timeline

- Mar 1943: Mason City Municipal Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 18/36 | 6,501 ft / 1,982 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 180° / 360° | yes |
| 12/30 | 5,502 ft / 1,677 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Asphalt | 125° / 305° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00667AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 13,397 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 16,323 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 15,274 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 16,544 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 15,980 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 7,156 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 16,020 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 19,467 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 16,586 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 17,055 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 17,474 | 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 · 288 mi / 463 km · United Express

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

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

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 17K (2025) | #2,499 of 3,974 | #591 in North America | #408 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,501 ft / 1,982 m | =4,075 of 29,858 | =1,009 in North America | =768 in US |
| Elevation | 1,213 ft / 370 m | #14,848 of 43,403 | #6,430 in North America | #5,021 in US |
| Age | Opened 1943 | =2,016 of 15,079 | =1,078 in North America | =1,034 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 120.300 |
| CNTR | MINNEAPOLIS CNTR | 127.300 |
| RDO | FORT DODGE RDO | 122.600 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 123.000 |

## Nearby airports

- [CCY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kccy.md) Northeast Iowa Regional Airport · 37 mi / 59 km
- [FOD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kfod.md) Fort Dodge Regional Airport · 61 mi / 97 km
- [ALO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kalo.md) Waterloo Regional Airport · 63 mi / 101 km
- [RST](https://dromopedia.com/airports/krst.md) Rochester International Airport · 66 mi / 107 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: “Mason City Municipal Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mason_City_Municipal_Airport&oldid=1376287545), revision of 23 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/kmcw/data