Bent Nail Ranch Airport
7KS4 · Horton, Kansas · Atchison County · map
Bent Nail Ranch Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southeast of Horton, Kansas, 1,124 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 1,550 feet of grass.
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 7KS4
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,124 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- 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
- December 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 1,550 × 60 ft | Grass |
- Runway 20: trees 40 ft high 400 ft from the end
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: Amelia Earhart Airport (13 nm east), Rosecrans Memorial (26 nm east), Brenner Field (28 nm north), Sherman Army Airfield (29 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Amelia Earhart Airport (13 nm east), Sabetha Municipal (23 nm northwest), Rosecrans Memorial (26 nm east), Brenner Field (28 nm north).
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
- Maintain 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 Horton from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Horton, Kansas: 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Kansas.
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 Horton 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- 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/7KS4.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.