Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport

Coordinates: 38°56′48″N 092°40′58″W / 38.94667°N 92.68278°W / 38.94667; -92.68278

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KVER – FAA LID: VER
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Boonville
Serves Boonville, Missouri
Location Windsor Place, Missouri
Elevation AMSL 715 ft / 218 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
18/36 4,000 1,219 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 9,080

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport (ICAO: KVER, FAA LID: VER), also known as Jesse P. Viertel Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of Boonville, a city in Cooper County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is home to the Daniel Boone Flying Club, which serves central Missouri.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport is assigned VER by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned VER to General Heriberto Jara International Airport in Veracruz, Mexico[3]).

On November 30, 2014 a small plane crashed during landing at (Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport). The plane crash landed into a field about 1/2 mile south of the runway. The pilot was killed and three passengers were taken to a nearby hospital in Columbia, Missouri. On December 17, 2014 it was released that there was battery failure. This caused the plane to shut down. They were unable to make it to the runway in time.

Facilities and aircraft

Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport covers an area of 125 acres (51 ha) which contains one runway designated 18/36 with a 3,999 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2006, the airport had 9,080 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day: 92% general aviation (8,380), 4% air taxi (400), 3% military (300).

References

  1. 1 2 FAA Airport Master Record for VER (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-12-20
  2. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: KVER - Boonville, Missouri (Jesse Viertel Memorial Airport)
  3. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: VER / MMVR - Veracruz, Mexico (General Heriberto Jara International)

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