Capitol Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 02C
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC
Serves	Brookfield, Wisconsin
Time zone	CST (UTC−06:00)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC−05:00)
Elevation AMSL	844 ft / 257 m
Coordinates	43°05′23″N 088°10′46″W / 43.08972°N 88.17944°W / 43.08972; -88.17944
Map
02C Location of airport in Wisconsin Show map of Wisconsin 02C 02C (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 3/21 2,994 913 Asphalt 9/27 3,387 1,033 Turf 18/36 1,602 488 Turf
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2022) 13,010 Based aircraft (2024) 116
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Capitol Airport (FAA LID: 02C) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Brookfield, a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It is privately owned by Wisconsin Aviation Investments LLC.^[1] The airport is also known as, or formerly known as, Capitol Drive Airport.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027, in which it is categorized as a regional reliever airport facility.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Capitol Airport covers an area of 207 acres (84 ha) at an elevation of 844 feet (257 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 3/21 which measures 2,994 x 45 ft. (913 x 13 m), plus two turf runways: 9/27 measuring 3,387 x 100 ft. (1,033 x 30 m) and 18/36 measuring 1,602 x 80 ft. (488 x 24 m).^[1]

The facility has no published instrument procedures and no instrument navigational aids.

For the 12-month period ending July 22, 2022, the airport had 13,010 aircraft operations, an average of 36 per day: 99% general aviation and less than 1% military. In January 2024, there were 116 aircraft based at this airport: 107 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, 1 jet and 6 helicopter.^[1]

Brookfield Aero, LLC is the fixed-base operator.

Incidents

• Two were killed on November 21, 1992, when their Piper PA-28-140 crashed while attempting to land in low visibility.^[3]
• A groundskeeper was seriously injured when he was struck by the propeller of a Cessna 120 taxiing prior to takeoff on September 6, 2002.^[4][5]
• One was killed and two were injured on January 4, 2017, when their plane crashed during takeoff.^[6]