Ellinwood Municipal
1K6 · Ellinwood, Kansas · Barton County · map
Ellinwood Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City Ellinwood, 2 miles northwest of Ellinwood, Kansas, 1,797 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 2,550 feet of grass and gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1K6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City Ellinwood
- Elevation
- 1,797 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1945
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,550 × 100 ft | Grass and gravel, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 2,150 × 150 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 17: road 15 ft high 60 ft from the end
- Runway 26: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Ellinwood from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Ellinwood, Kansas: 3 piston singles, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Airport constructed prior to 1959.
- 2 feet ditch at runway 26 thld.
- Also 15 feet road, 75 feet dstc, 130 feet L/R, obstruction clnc slope 5:1.
- Soft after rain.
- Patches of grassy vegetation/gravel mixture aer 17 along centerline.
- Large drainage ditch 400 feet south of runway 35
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.