Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is a public airport opened in April 1966, located in the village of Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States, 8mi west of the city of Aurora, both in Kane County. The airport is owned and operated by the City of Aurora. It is 50mi west of Chicago and is designated as a reliever airport for Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for both the FAA and IATA, Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport is assigned ARR by the FAA and AUZ by the IATA (which assigned ARR to Alto Río Senguer, Argentina). The airport's ICAO identifier is KARR.Facilities and aircraftAurora Municipal Airport covers an area of, and contains three runways: Runway 9/27: 6,501 x 100 ft (1,982 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete Runway 15/33: 5,503 x 100 ft (1,677 x 30 m), Surface: Concrete Runway 18/36: 3,198 x 75 ft (975 x 23 m), Surface: Asphalt For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2016, the airport had 62,072 aircraft operations, an average of 170 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. In January 2017, there were 338 aircraft based at this airport: 242 single-engine, 63 multi-engine, 27 jet aircraft and 6 helicopters. J.A. Air Center and Lumanair are the airport's two fixed-base operators (FBO).
