Burke Lakefront Airport
BKL · KBKL · Cleveland, Ohio · Cuyahoga County · map
Burke Lakefront Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cleveland, 1 mile north of Cleveland, Ohio, 584 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 06L/24R, is 6,604 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 17 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 39,534 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,405 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KBKL · observed 6:53 pm EDT (22:53 UTC), 39 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (190°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 62°F (17°C), dew point 40°F (4°C)
- Altimeter 30.03 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 KBKL 062253Z 19008KT 10SM CLR 17/04 A3003 RMK AO2 RAB2154E04 SLP171 P0000 T01670044 $
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 BKL · ICAO KBKL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cleveland
- Elevation
- 584 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 0700 monday to 2300 friday; 7:00 am to 11:00 pm saturday; sunday 8:00 am to 12:00 am
- 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
- Notes
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1948
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06L/24R | 6,604 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 06R/24L | 5,197 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 06L: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 178 ft, 6,325 ft available for landing
- Runway 24R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 600 ft, 6,003 ft available for landing, building 122 ft high 3,364 ft from the end
- Runway 06R: threshold displaced 275 ft, 4,924 ft available for landing
- Runway 24L: right-hand traffic pattern, ant 274 ft high 6,560 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.3 | Lakefront |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 125.25 | Lakefront |
| Ground · Clearance delivery When tower closed | 121.9 | Lakefront |
| Approach and departure | 125.35 | Lakefront |
| Brwnz and star · Roknn and star · Rolln and star | 126.55 | Lakefront |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 216-241-6904.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 39,534, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Cleveland from the FAA register
387 aircraft are registered to owners in Cleveland, Ohio: 346 business jets, 22 piston singles, 7 turboprops, 5 helicopters, 2 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 Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 4 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
- Helicopter asp: prior to part 157.
- Birds and waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- When the control tower closed activate malsf runway 24R; runway end identifier lights runway 06L - the common traffic frequency. High-intensity runway lights runway 06L/24R preset med intst, to incr intst rdo required on UNICOM. PAPI runway 06L and 24R operates continuously.
- Fee schedule based on NR of engines and gross weight.
- Runway 06R/24L not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats. Closed when the control tower closed.
- Unusable beyond 5 degreess right of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 8 degreess left of crs.
- Runway 06L/24R and runway 06R/24L approach surfaces have navigable waterways creating possible vessel obstruction areas - check local NOTAMs for current activity; vessel height; etc.
- 72 feet ship crane 1300 feet southwest of runway 06R.
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.