Lansing Municipal Airport is a public airport located 21mi south of Chicago, in Lansing, a village in Cook County, Illinois, USA. It is owned by the Village of Lansing.Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Lansing Municipal Airport is assigned IGQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.Facilities and aircraftLansing Municipal Airport covers an area of 650acre which contains two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 3,395 x 75 ft (1,035 x 23 m) and 18/36: 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. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport totaled 54,000 aircraft operations, an average of 147 per day: 91% general aviation and 9% air taxi. In November 2016, there were 143 aircraft 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, located at the Lansing Municipal Airport in Lansing, Illinois, is an airplane hangar built beginning in 1926, and completed by early January 1927. It was established as a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was built under the direction of Henry Ford to serve as a facility to produce and display Ford Tri-Motor airplanes.
