Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (IATA: CGI, ICAO: KCGI, FAA LID: CGI) is a city owned public use airport in Scott County, Missouri, United States. It is located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of the central business district of Cape Girardeau, a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The airport is used for general aviation, and has scheduled service by Contour Airlines with subsidized Essential Air Service program flights to Chicago O’Hare Airport. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a commercial service - nonprimary airport based on passenger enplanements (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).
Location
37.225°N, 89.571°O · 104 m s. n. m. (342 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 5 Official publication
Tower
Ground
Approach
UNICOM
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
Opened in 1943, the airport was constructed by the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Harris Army Airfield, the airfield was a primary (stage 1) pilot training airfield assigned to AAF Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command). It was operated under contract to Cape Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., with the civil instructors under the USAAF 73d Flying Training Detachment. Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainer at the airfield.
Contract flying training was short at the airfield, the school closing during the late summer of 1944 with the draw down of AAFTC's pilot training program. The airfield was turned over to civil control at the end of the war though the War Assets Administration (WAA).
In 1975 the City of Cape Girardeau was considering annexing the airport and adjacent areas. At the time, the Illmo-Scott City R-1 School District contained the airport and surrounding businesses. The school district administration feared that if the city government annexed the airport, then the airport area would also be transferred from the Illmo-Scott City school district to the Cape Girardeau School District, and in turn the Illmo-Scott City district would have reduced tax revenue.
In 2018, Air Force One landed here.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 15 aircraft documented between 2019 and 2022.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (CGI). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CGI
MLA
“Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (CGI).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CGI. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (CGI).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CGI.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (CGI). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CGI (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
BibTeX
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