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Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport

airport in Oklahoma, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3274221 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport (ICAO: KRCE, FAA LID: RCE, formerly F29) is a public-use airport owned by the city of Oklahoma City and located in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. It is 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of the central business district of Oklahoma City, but still within its city limits. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2009–2013), which categorizes it as a general aviation airport.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RCE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned RCE to Roche Harbor Seaplane Base in Washington.).

Facilities and aircraft

Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport covers an area of 1,000 acres (400 ha) at an elevation of 1,354 feet (413 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with concrete surfaces: 17R/35L is 6,014 by 100 feet (1,833 x 30 m) and 17L/35R is 3,502 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending July 2, 2008, the airport had 25,000 aircraft operations, an average of 68 per day, all of which were general aviation. At that time there were 52 aircraft based at this airport: 73% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, 6% helicopter and 19% ultralight.

History

Opened in October, 1941, the airport conducted contract basic flying training for the United States Army Air Forces. Known as Cimarron Field, the wartime airport had five grass runways, with the runways being changed at various times, with three auxiliary airfields used for emergency and overflow landings/takeoffs.

Editorial summary

“Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport” enters the record as airport in Oklahoma, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Clarence, Page and Municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2013, 2008, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Clarence, Page and Municipal.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Clarence, Page and Municipal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3274221. Authority coordinates are 35.488, -97.824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2013, 2008 and 1941.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.