Patterson Farms Airport
66KS · Independence, Kansas · Montgomery County · map
Patterson Farms Airport is a private airport, 8 miles southwest of Independence, Kansas, 880 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,640 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 66KS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 880 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,640 × 150 ft | Grass |
- Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Independence Municipal (4 nm east), Coffeyville Municipal (15 nm east), Tri-City Airport (20 nm northeast), Bartlesville Municipal (25 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Independence Municipal (4 nm east), Coffeyville Municipal (15 nm east), Tri-City Airport (20 nm northeast), Neodesha Municipal (20 nm northeast).
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 Kansas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided all traffic patterns are west of runway; maintain a clear 20:1 approach and 7:1 transitional surface.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Independence from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Independence, Kansas: 11 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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 Kansas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Repair stations in Independence:
- Aviation Controls INC Precision Aviation Group is a maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider with 26 global repair stations serving fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft operators.
- Textron Aviation INC
- Vse Aviation Services, LLC
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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 Independence 13 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 drones
- Aviation Controls INC · repair station
- Textron Aviation INC · repair station
- Vse Aviation Services, LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Kansas 1,146 since 1982 · 149 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Kansas 150 landing places
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/66KS.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.