East Kansas City Airport
3GV · Grain Valley, Missouri · Jackson County · map
East Kansas City Airport is a public-use airport owned by Grain Valley Airport CORP in Grain Valley, Missouri, 835 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 4,507 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3GV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Grain Valley Airport CORP
- Elevation
- 835 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- 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
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1956
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,507 × 44 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 2,206 × 20 ft | Asphalt, excellent |
- Runway 09: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 303 ft, rr 23 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 27: rr 15 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 05: trees 32 ft high 230 ft from the end
- Runway 23: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 56 ft high 656 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.3 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.4 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Grain Valley from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Grain Valley, Missouri: 18 piston singles, 1 helicopter. 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 Missouri.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 24 since 1982, 3 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
- E111 provided east/west runway is abdnd upon actvtn of new east/west (09/27) runway; approach to each runway is maintd for a minimum 20:1 glideslope and trsnl surface maintd for a 7:1 slope.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Wind sock
- Runway 05/23 steep grade 60-235 feet northeast of runway 05 thld.
- Non-standard medium-intensity runway lights; no yellow edge lights last 2000 feet both ends; all edge lights located 13-15 feet from pavement edge; runway 27 only 6 threshold lights located 18-20 feet east of threshold.
- Width variance 20-25 feet.
- Width variance 44-45 feet.
- Railroad track 0-200 feet from runway, 80-230 feet right; trees 20-35 feet, 0-200 feet from runway, 130-250 feet right.
- Runway 09 1-20 feet gnd 0-200 feet from runway end left and right; +16 feet signs 145 feet from runway end 80 feet left; 10-25 feet road 0-200 feet from runway end 125-160 feet left; +1-50 feet trees and railroad 0-200 feet from runway end 200-250 feet right.
- Hngr building 16-26 feet, 125-200 feet from runway end, 180-250 feet left.
- +1-33 feet brush; trees; fence; railroad; road and buildings 0-200 feet from runway end left and right.
- 0:1 to displaced thld; +1-5 feet gnd 0-90 feet from runway end 70-130 feet right.
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.