Southeast Iowa Regional Airport

Southeast Iowa Regional Airport (KBRL) is a medium airport in Burlington, IA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KBRL or IATA code BRL. It sits in North America.

Southeast Iowa Regional Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 6,102 ft (1,860 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.

Southeast Iowa Regional Airport sits near sea level at 698 ft.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 0 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KBRL across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KBRL are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Southeast Iowa Regional Airport – also known as SIRA – is a public airport located two miles southwest of Burlington, in Des Moines County, Iowa. It is owned by the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport Authority which includes representatives from the city of Burlington, the city of West Burlington, and Des Moines County. The airport is used for general aviation and sees one airline, a service subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $1,917,566.