Aitkin Muni/Steve Kurtz Field
AIT · KAIT · Aitkin, Minnesota · Aitkin County · map
Aitkin Muni/Steve Kurtz Field is a public-use airport owned by the County & City of Aitkin, 2 miles northeast of Aitkin, Minnesota, 1,206 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AIT · ICAO KAIT
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County & City of Aitkin
- Elevation
- 1,206 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to October, every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; November to March, Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- 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
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1946
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 3,123 × 140 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 16: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 34: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 96 ft high 1,644 ft from the end
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 240 ft, 2,883 ft available for landing, trees 38 ft high 676 ft from the end
- Runway 26: trees 45 ft high 819 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Brainerd and center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.05 | |
| Ait and aWOS-3 | 118.675 | |
| Apt Remark 4 With Gco Freq | 121.725 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 218-927-2101.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Aitkin from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Aitkin, Minnesota: 11 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 since 1982, 0 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
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 preset low intst; activate or incr intst runway end identifier lights runway 16 and 34; PAPI runway 16 and 34; medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency
- Calm wind runway.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Gco available on frequency 121.725 through zmp the air route traffic control center and pnm Flight Service.
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.