Columbus Municipal Airport is a mile (2 km) northeast of Columbus, in Platte County, Nebraska. It is owned by the Columbus Airport Authority; it has 100LL and JetA fuel for sale.
The first airline flights were Mid-West Airlines Cessna 190s in 1950âÂÂ51. Frontier DC-3s arrived in 1965; its last Convair 580 left in 1979.
The airport covers , and has two runways: 14/32 is 6,801 x 100 ft (2,073 x 30 m) concrete and 2/20 is 4,135 x 150 ft (1,260 x 46 m) turf.
In the year ending July 26, 2023, the airport had 8,000 aircraft operations, average 22 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military.