Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 2

95 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 QUINCY REGIONAL A I RPORT County. With just over 1000 acres of property, the airport currently has three runways – but is in the process of going down to two. Once that happens, they will have runway 4/22, which is 7,098 by 150 feet, and runway 13/31, which is 5,397 by 150 feet. Before COVID, the airport was seeing almost 20,000 operations per year – 80% general aviation and 20% commercial. Currently, there are 55 aircraft based at UIN and the FBO services are provided by Quincy Aviation. “Quincy Aviation offers fuel, charters, and maintenance, as well as operating a flight school,” Hanafin says. “They have also partnered with Quincy University, which is a small private university in town, to create a top-notch aviation program. The program there can go toe to toe supermarkets, Knapheid Manufacturing does lots of work with truck bodies and modifications, and there are many other companies based here. Part of that is taking advantage of our location in the Midwest, surrounded by agriculture and right on the Mississippi River. So, we see a lot of traffic here at the airport that is related to these businesses. We are also a rather large airport in the middle of the country and the Tri-States region, which makes it a really attractive place for pilots to stop off – whether it’s to fuel up or be based out of here with their small private aircraft.” Quincy Regional Airport (UIN) is a city-owned general aviation airport which is situated about 12 miles east of downtown Quincy in Adams