Hartington Muni/Bud Becker Field
0B4 · Hartington, Nebraska · Cedar County · map
Hartington Muni/Bud Becker Field is a public-use airport owned by Hartington Airport Authority, 2 miles southeast of Hartington, Nebraska, 1,388 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 3,950 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 16 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,350 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0B4
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hartington Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 1,388 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1949
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,950 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 03/21 | 2,150 × 125 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 70 ft high 1,487 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 400 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Sioux City Center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.025 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,350, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Hartington from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Hartington, Nebraska: 11 piston singles, 9 drones, 3 turboprops. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Activate PAPI runway 13 and 31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport authority chairman is karma schulte
- Not plowed during winter months.
- Runway 31 CLOSE-IN obstruction road 223 right.
- Runway 13 tree mass 300 feet to 470 feet R of centerline.
- Runway 13 tree mass 1330 feet to 1250 feet from runway end.
- Runway 03 clnc slope 23:1 due to tree 42 feet above 1000 feet from runway end, 119 feet L.
- Runway 21 clnc slope 21;1 due to road 10 feet above 215 feet from runway end, 0B runway 21 watch for center pivot rotating into approach durg growing season, can create clnc slope as low as 18:1.
- Runway 31 approach ratio 21:1 to displaced threshold due to road 31 feet above 675 feet from displaced threshold, 351 feet L.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.