Crookston Muni/Kirkwood Field
CKN · KCKN · Crookston, Minnesota · Polk County · map
Crookston Muni/Kirkwood Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Crookston, 4 miles north of Crookston, Minnesota, 897 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 4,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CKN · ICAO KCKN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Crookston
- Elevation
- 897 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 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
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,300 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 2,977 × 200 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the right
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.1 | |
| Ckn and aWOS-3 | 126.425 | |
| Grand Forks Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.15 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 218-281-3018.
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 Crookston from the FAA register
29 aircraft are registered to owners in Crookston, Minnesota: 24 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 1 drone. 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 · 9 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 13 and 31; PAPI runway 13; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 31 operates continuously.
- Fuel available H24 via credit card.
- Not plowed winter months.
- Calm wind runway.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
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.