Flying Cloud, in southern Eden Prairie, is the busiest flight-training airport in the Twin Cities reliever system.
Airliners and cargo flights within 25 nm of FCM. Routes come from a community database matched on flight numbers, so a few will be wrong or out of date. Flights without a route are marked "est." and judged from altitude and climb or descent.
History
The Metropolitan Airports Commission bought the original 134 acres in 1947, and the airport has since grown to 860 acres. It sits in southern Eden Prairie, across the Minnesota River from Shakopee.
It is the busiest flight-training airport in the MAC system, and helicopters and business twin-engine turboprops and jets also use it.
Quick facts
- Codes
- FCM / KFCM
- MAC bought the site
- 1947, original 134 acres
- Size today
- 860 acres
- Main users
- Flight training, business aircraft, helicopters
Sources: MAC Facts: Reliever Airports
Watch and listen
Listen to live air traffic control for FCM on LiveATC. The feeds come from volunteers, so availability varies.