Colonel James Jabara Airport
AAO · KAAO · Wichita, Kansas · Sedgwick County · map
Colonel James Jabara Airport is a public-use airport owned by Wichita Airport Authority, 9 miles northeast of Wichita, Kansas, 1,421 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 6,101 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KAAO · observed 2:54 pm CDT (19:54 UTC), 43 minutes ago
- Wind calm
- Altimeter 29.97 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KAAO 061954Z AUTO A2997 RMK AO2 SLPNO PWINO FZRANO $
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AAO · ICAO KAAO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Wichita Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 1,421 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,101 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.8 | |
| Aao and automated weather (ASOS) | 134.025 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 316-636-2541.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 2 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
- Runway 18/36 has no objection.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36, approach lights (MALSR) runway 18, runway end identifier lights runway 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Attended continuously.
- Mcconnell afb 9 miles south and beech factory airport 3 miles south.
- Beech factory airport class D airspace 1 mile south runway 18.
- Southerly and southeasterly VFR arrival and departure not recommended without air traffic control radar services due to beech factory airport and mcconnell afb class D airspace.
- VFR arrival and departure recommended to rmn at or below 2,500 above sea level within 5 miles due to heavy military traffic 3,000 above sea level.
- No line of sight between runway ends.
- Runway 36 dsgnd calm wind runway.
- Engine RUN-UPS not permitted on aircraft ramps.
- Prior permission required for aircraft carrying class 1 division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives as defined by 49 cfr 173.50.
- Birds on and in vicinity of airport.
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.