MC Creary County
18I · Pine Knot, Kentucky · Mc Creary County · map
MC Creary County is a public-use airport owned by Mc Creary County, 3 miles northeast of Pine Knot, Kentucky, 1,370 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 2,999 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 4 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 881 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 18I
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Mc Creary County
- Elevation
- 1,370 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,999 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 55 ft high 708 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 39 ft high 536 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| London 2 Center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.625 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 881, 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 Pine Knot from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Pine Knot, Kentucky: 4 piston singles. 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 Kentucky.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR use only.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 04 and 22; PAPI runway 04 and 22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 4/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Tmpryly unavailable.
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.