Kearney Regional
EAR · KEAR · Kearney, Nebraska · Buffalo County · map
Kearney Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kearney, 4 miles northeast of Kearney, Nebraska, 2,132 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 7,094 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA EAR · ICAO KEAR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kearney
- Elevation
- 2,132 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
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1943
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 7,094 × 100 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 4,498 × 75 ft | Concrete, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, building 103 ft high 5,250 ft from the end
- Runway 36: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Ear and vor | 111.2 | |
| Hastings and center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.4 | |
| Ear and aWOS-3PT | 123.875 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 308-237-5608.
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 Kearney from the FAA register
44 aircraft are registered to owners in Kearney, Nebraska: 29 piston singles, 5 turboprops, 5 drones, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 business jets. 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- Be alert when taxiing on apron due to several closed areas.
- High-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset on low intst; to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 18; approach lights (MALSR) runway 36; PAPI runways 13, 18, 31, and 36; and medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency.
- Air carrier operations are not authorized in excess of 15 minutes before or after scheduled arrival/departure times without prior coordination with amgr and confirmation that rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is available prior to ldng or takeoff.
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.