Orange City Municipal Airport (ICAO: KORC, FAA LID: ORC) was a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Orange City, a city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States.[1] This airport was included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Orange City Municipal Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KORC FAA LID: ORC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Orange City
Serves	Orange City, Iowa
Elevation AMSL	1,414 ft / 431 m
Coordinates	42°59′25″N 096°03′46″W
Map
ORC Location of airport in Iowa/United States Show map of Iowa ORC ORC (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 4,250 1,295 Concrete
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 4,200 Based aircraft 11
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility was assigned ORC by the FAA but had no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned ORC to Orocue Airport in Orocue, Colombia[4]).

Facilities and aircraft

Orange City Municipal Airport covered an area of 80 acres (32 ha) at an elevation of 1,414 feet (431 m) above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 16/34 with a 4,250 by 60 feet (1,295 x 18 m) concrete surface. For the 12-month period ending August 19, 2009, the airport had 4,200 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 81 per week: 43% local and 57% itinerant. At that time there were 11 aircraft based at this airport: 10 single-engine and 1 multi-engine.[1]

References

External links

• FAA Terminal Procedures for ORC, effective October 6, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for ORC
  • AirNav airport information for KORC
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures