Wheaton Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located three miles southwest of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Wheaton

Wheaton, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,619 people, 747 households, and 434 families residing in the city. The population density was 909.2 people per square mile . There were 907 housing units at an average density of 509.4 per square mile...

, a city in Traverse County

Traverse County, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 4,134 people, 1,717 households, and 1,129 families residing in the county. The population density was 7 people per square mile . There were 2,199 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States

United States

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Facilities and aircraft

Wheaton Municipal Airport covers an area of 110 acres which contains two runway

Runway

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 designated 16/33 with a 3,300 x 75 ft (1,006 x 23 m) asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface and 4/22 with a 1,919 x 175 ft (585 x 53 m) turf surface. For the 12-month period ending September 23, 2010, the airport had 3,900 aircraft operations, an average of 75 per week: 100% general aviation

General aviation

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. At that time there were 5 aircraft based at this airport: 3 single-engine

Aircraft engine

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and 2 multi-engine.