Airports · Kentucky · airport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Lucas Field

79KY · Nicholasville, Kentucky · Jessamine County · map

Lucas Field is a private airport, 1 mile west of Nicholasville, Kentucky, 906 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,488 feet of concrete.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 79KY
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 906 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Cincinnati sectional
Magnetic variation: 5W
In the FAA's files since: September 2004

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
09/27	5,488 × 100 ft	Concrete	High-intensity lights

Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 526 ft, power line 75 ft high 2,150 ft from the end
Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 508 ft, power line 60 ft high 665 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Approach and departure

120.15

Aircraft registered in Nicholasville from the FAA register

29 aircraft are registered to owners in Nicholasville, Kentucky: 20 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 piston twins, 2 business jets, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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:

R J Corman Aviation Services LLC 2Big Sky Adventures LLC 2

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

Blue Grass Airport LEX · 10 nm north Stuart Powell Field DVK · 19 nm southwest Central Kentucky Regional RGA · 20 nm southeast Capital City Airport FFT · 23 nm northwest Georgetown-Scott County Regional 27K · 23 nm north St. Joseph Jessamine Heliport 5KY0 · 2 nm northeast · private Big Sky Adventures Airport 3KY1 · 6 nm east · private Signature Heliport 3KY2 · 8 nm northeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09/27; PAPI runway 09/27 and high-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - 122.95 3 clicks. 7 clicks turn on PAPI only.

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.