Burnet Municipal Airport

Burnet Municipal Airport, also known as Kate Craddock Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Burnet, a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned BMQ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned BMQ to Bamburi, Kenya ).

Facilities and aircraft
Burnet Municipal Airport covers an area of 143 acre at an elevation of 1,283 feet (391 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 1/19 which measures 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).

The lighted runway, with a full length taxiway, has two instrument approaches and can accommodate aircraft with up to 30000 lb per wheel. Faulkner's Air Shop is the fixed-base operator (FBO). Avgas and jet fuel are available.

For the 12-month period ending June 8, 2023, the airport had 21,000 aircraft operations, an average of 57 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% military. At that time, there were 48 aircraft based at this airport: 42 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 1 jet, and 2 helicopter.

Accidents and incidents

 * On July 21, 2018, a Douglas C-47B N47HL of the Commemorative Air Force crashed on take-off and was destroyed by fire. All thirteen people on board survived.