Chippewa County International Airport
Chippewa County International Airport
Chippewa County International Airport (IATA: CIU, ICAO: KCIU, FAA LID: CIU) is a public use airport in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States. It is located 15 nautical miles (17 mi; 28 km) south of the central business district of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The airport is owned by the Chippewa County Economic Development Corporation. It was formerly the site of the Kincheloe Air Force Base, which closed in 1977. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. The airport received $1.1 million in 2020 as part of the CARES Act to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The money went towards helping maintain operations and complete upgrades during the pandemic-induced travel downturn.
Location
46.242°N, 84.462°O · 244 m s. n. m. (800 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2 Official publication
Common traffic (CTAF)
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.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 58 aircraft documented between 2015 and 2025.
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 · 2
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). Chippewa County International Airport (CIU). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU
MLA
“Chippewa County International Airport (CIU).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Chippewa County International Airport (CIU).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Chippewa County International Airport (CIU). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Chippewa County International Airport (CIU)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CIU}},
urldate = {2026-10-19},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}Wikipedia
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