Fairmont Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of the central business district of Fairmont, a city in Martin County, Minnesota, United States.
The airport at this location was dedicated in 1951.
Fairmont Municipal Airport covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is and 2/20 is .
For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2008, the airport had 9,400 aircraft operations, an average of 25 per day: 91% general aviation, 7% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 30 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 3% jet and 3% ultralight.
In 1959 North Central Airlines began scheduled service using Douglas DC-3 aircraft. The flight route was from MinneapolisâÂÂSt. Paul International Airport, Mankato, Fairmont, Worthington, and Sioux Falls, SD. Scheduled service by various commuter airlines continued until 1996.