Cherokee Municipal
4O5 · Cherokee, Oklahoma · Alfalfa County · map
Cherokee Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cherokee, 2 miles north of Cherokee, Oklahoma, 1,179 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,770 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4O5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cherokee
- Elevation
- 1,179 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1966
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,770 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 200 ft
- Runway 35: threshold displaced 200 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Cherokee from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Cherokee, Oklahoma: 2 piston singles. 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 Oklahoma.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Sunset to sunrise activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency.
- 8 feet fence 50 feet from runway end 47:1 clnc slope to dthr.
- 15' road 130' from runway end crosses ext CL; 8' fence 50' from runway end 47:1 clc slope to disp thrld
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.