Kickapoo Downtown Airport
CWC · KCWC · Wichita Falls, Texas · Wichita County · map
Kickapoo Downtown Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Wichita Falls, 3 miles south of Wichita Falls, Texas, 1,003 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,450 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KCWC · observed 2:35 pm CDT (19:35 UTC), 19 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 84°F (29°C), dew point 52°F (11°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 KCWC 061935Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 29/11 A3003 RMK AO2 T02900111 PWINO
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 CWC · ICAO KCWC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Wichita Falls
- Elevation
- 1,003 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 8:00 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
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1940
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,450 × 75 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 150 ft, fence 5 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 250 ft, road 15 ft high 314 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.2 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.4 | |
| Cwc and aWOS-3 | 119.625 | |
| Wichita Falls Center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.5 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 940-766-2967.
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 Wichita Falls from the FAA register
166 aircraft are registered to owners in Wichita Falls, Texas: 114 piston singles, 15 piston twins, 13 business jets, 7 turboprops, 7 drones. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Do not mistake Kickapoo Downtown for sheppard afb/wichita Falls municipal airport 7 miles north.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runways 17 and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency.
- Full and self serve 100 LL and jet a
- 5 feet fence, 0-199 feet dstc, 210 feet L.
- Obstruction clnc slope 22:1 to displaced threshold ovr 14 feet road, 320 feet dstc.
- Obstruction clnc slope 37:1 to displaced threshold.
- Intensive jet trainer traffic 11:00 pm to 6:00 pm feet above sea level within alert area A-636. Remain below 1800 feet above sea level until in radar contact with approach control for traffic advisories.
- Ants 2054 feet above sea level 3.5 MI northwest 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.