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Rooster Field

40KY · Shelbyville, Kentucky · Shelby County · map

Rooster Field is a private airport, 4 miles north of Shelbyville, Kentucky, 840 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,000 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 40KY
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 840 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: St Louis sectional
Magnetic variation: 2W
In the FAA's files since: November 1979

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
11/29	2,000 × 40 ft	Grass

Runway 11: trees 50 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Runway 29: power line 35 ft high 150 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Shelbyville from the FAA register

36 aircraft are registered to owners in Shelbyville, Kentucky: 24 piston singles, 5 drones, 2 helicopters, 2 gliders, 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:

Rut N Strut Aviation LLC 6

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

Capital City Airport FFT · 16 nm southeast Bowman Field LOU · 22 nm west Lee Bottom Airport 64I · 23 nm northwest Robinson Airport 8I1 · 24 nm north Clark Regional JVY · 25 nm west Louisville Muhammad Ali International SDF · 26 nm west Gallatin County 8GK · 27 nm northeast Flying C Farms Airport 6KY3 · 2 nm north · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

E111: VFR; private use only.
Runway 11/29 thlds marked with flat white rocks flush with the ground.

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.