MWA

Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois

ICAO KMWA37.7512°N 89.0166°W472 ft / 144 mMedium airport
On the map
MWA Airport Diagram
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Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (IATA: MWA, ICAO: KMWA) is a medium airport in Marion, Illinois, United States. It opened in Oct 1944. It has 2 runways; the longest is 8,012 ft (2,442 m). In 2025 it handled 26 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1944–1944
OCT 1944
OpenedVeterans Airport of Southern Illinois opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
02/20022° / 202° · LIT
LENGTH8,012 ft2,442 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
11/29108° / 288° · LIT
LENGTH4,997 ft1,523 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MWA. From the Wikipedia article “Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers26K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,347of 3,974 · #545 North America · #372 USLongest runway8,012 ft2,442 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,683of 29,823 · =541 North America · #400 USElevation472 ft144 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#27,622of 43,341 · #13,137 North America · #10,999 USAgeOpened 19442026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,300of 15,079 · =1,299 North America · =1,249 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

8 channels
AWOSAWOS 3119.675
CLDCLNC DEL125.300
CNTRKANSAS CITY CNTR125.300
CTAFCTAF128.400
GNDGND121.700
RDOST LOUIS RDO110.400
TWRMARION TWR128.400
UNICUNICOM122.950