Steele Airport
24MU · Fairfax, Missouri · Atchison County · map
Steele Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northwest of Fairfax, Missouri, 1,077 feet above sea level. Its one runway, NW/SE, is 1,500 feet of grass.
The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 24MU
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,077 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW/SE | 1,500 × 50 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Brenner Field (18 nm south), Shenandoah Municipal (23 nm north), Northwest Missouri Regional (24 nm east), Nebraska City Municipal (24 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Gould Peterson Municipal (6 nm northeast), Farington Field (16 nm west), Brenner Field (18 nm south), Shenandoah Municipal (23 nm north).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Missouri · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided approach to each runway is maintd for a minimum 20:1 glide slope and transitional surface maintd for a 7:1 slope.
- Wires north
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fairfax from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Fairfax, Missouri: 2 piston singles, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Missouri.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Fairfax 3 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 1 drones
- Accidents and incidents in Missouri 1,637 since 1982 · 216 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Missouri 124 landing places
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/24MU.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.