Freeman Field
3JC · Junction City, Kansas · Geary County · map
Freeman Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Junction City, 1 mile northwest of Junction City, Kansas, 1,102 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,498 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3JC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Junction City
- Elevation
- 1,102 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1949
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,498 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 1,903 × 140 ft | Grass, fair | |
| 05/23 | 1,834 × 200 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 25 ft high 245 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 60 ft high 777 ft from the end
- Runway 13: trees 40 ft high 328 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 75 ft high 1,530 ft from the end
- Runway 05: tree 25 ft high 80 ft from the end
- Runway 23: pole 32 ft high 231 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.25 | |
| Manhattan and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.35 |
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Aircraft registered in Junction City from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Junction City, Kansas: 16 piston singles, 2 drones, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 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
- Grass soft when wet.
- Activate PAPI runway 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- 10 feet brush along fence, 0-199 feet dstc, 240 R.
- Thld marked west/tires and blue and white barrels.
- Thld marked west/blue and white plastic barrels.
- Thld marked west/blue and white plastic barrels.
- Thld marked west/blue and white plastic barrels.
- 75 feet light poles, 900 feet to thld, 280 feet R of CL.
- NON-STD air traffic control minima applied IFR arvls with respect to HI-PERFORMANCE-ACFT operations conducted within cfns of R-3602.
- Waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -22C.
- Baseball field light poles 918 feet to 1303 feet from runway end, 338 feet to 672 feet right, 1175 feet amsl.
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.