Elkhart Municipal
EKM · KEKM · Elkhart, Indiana · Elkhart County · map
Elkhart Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Elkhart, 3 miles northwest of Elkhart, Indiana, 778 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 6,500 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KEKM · observed 3:35 pm EDT (19:35 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (180°) at 11 knots
- Visibility 9 miles
- Temperature 71°F (22°C), dew point 43°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 30.02 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 KEKM 061935Z AUTO 18011KT 9SM CLR 22/06 A3002 RMK AO2 T02180060 $
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 EKM · ICAO KEKM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Elkhart
- Elevation
- 778 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm mon-fri, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm sat-sun.
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 6,500 × 120 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 3,999 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 2,480 × 250 ft | Grass, excellent |
- Runway 09: VASI, four boxes on the left, trees 40 ft high 1,050 ft from the end
- Runway 27: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 69 ft high 2,645 ft from the end
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 40 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
- Runway 36: VASI, four boxes on the left, trees 62 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.5 | Elkhart |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Clearance delivery When Elkhart tower closed | 119.7 | Elkhart |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.8 | Elkhart |
| Approach and departure | 118.55 | Elkhart |
| Ekm and aWOS-3PT | 124.475 | |
| Goshen and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.55 | Elkhart |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 574-264-9002.
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 Elkhart from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Elkhart, Indiana: 31 piston singles, 6 helicopters, 6 business jets, 4 turboprops, 1 piston twin. 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 Indiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 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 approach lights (MALSR) runway 27; runway end identifier lights runway 09, 18 and 36; VASI runway 09 and 36; PAPI runway 18 and 27 - the common traffic frequency. When the control tower closed high-intensity runway lights runway 09/27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- VFR operations drg the control tower hours only.
- 7 feet brush L and R of centerline 100 feet from threshold.
- Faded.
- Faded.
- White corner mkrs.
- White corner mkrs.
- VASI unusable 7 degrees left and right of centerline.
- Taxiway marked with reflectors; taxiway a unavailable to aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats.
- (E94) swars.
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.