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Westport Auxiliary Airport

72K · Wichita, Kansas · Sedgwick County · map

Westport Auxiliary Airport is a public-use airport, 5 miles southwest of Wichita, Kansas, 1,272 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,550 feet of grass.

The airport

Codes: FAA 72K
Kind: Airport · open to the public · privately owned
Elevation: 1,272 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Parking: hangar
On the chart: Wichita sectional
Magnetic variation: 7E
In the FAA's files since: February 1953

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
17/35	2,550 × 50 ft	Grass, fair

Runway 17: power line 60 ft high 40 ft from the end
Runway 35: trees on the approach

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Wichita from the FAA register

1,312 aircraft are registered to owners in Wichita, Kansas: 705 piston singles, 182 turboprops, 174 business jets, 134 gliders, 69 piston twins. 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:

Textron Aviation INC 338 Wingsleasing LLC 116 Kansas Aviation Museum 25 Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee 25 Textron Financial CORP 19 Elemental Aviation Lc 17 Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee 17 Textron Aviation Employees Flying Club INC 16 Eaglemed LLC 14 Airtrex Registration CORP Trustee 14

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Westport Airport 71K · 3 nm northwest Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport ICT · 4 nm northwest Cessna Acft Field CEA · 6 nm northeast Cook Airfield K50 · 9 nm east Beech Factory Airport BEC · 9 nm northeast Colonel James Jabara Airport AAO · 11 nm northeast Butler Airpark 6KS · 14 nm east Augusta Municipal 3AU · 14 nm east

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Existed prior to 1959.
Road crosses north end runway 17/35. 775 feet from aer 17 large ridge at crossing.
Numerous trees in the approach.
60 feet power line marked with red balls.
Rough and bumpy. 10 feet dirt road crosses runway 780 feet from north end.
If conditions favorable ballon traffic in area.
Crops both sides runway 17/35
Edge drop off along east edge runway 17/35

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.