Lansing Municipal Airport

Lansing Municipal Airport is 21 miles south of Chicago, in Lansing, a village in Cook County, Illinois. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Lansing Municipal Airport is IGQ to the FAA and has no IATA code.FacilitiesLansing Municipal Airport covers 650acre and has two asphalt runways: 9/27 is 3,395 x 75 ft (1,035 x 23 m) and 18/36 is 4,002 x 75 ft (1,220 x 23 m). It also houses a blimp base which launches 1/4 of the blimps that cover Chicago sporting events. In 2004 the airport totalled 54,000 aircraft operations, average 147 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. In November 2016, 143 aircraft were based at this airport: 113 single engine, 15 multi-engine, 5 jet, 9 helicopter and 1 ultralight.Ford Hangar at Lansing Municipal AirportThe Ford Hangar, at the Lansing Municipal Airport in Lansing, Illinois, is an airplane hangar built beginning in 1926, and completed by early January 1927. It became a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was built under the direction of Henry Ford to produce and display Ford Tri-Motor airplanes.