Addington Field
EKX · KEKX · Elizabethtown, Kentucky · Hardin County · map
Addington Field is a public-use airport owned by Elizabethtown Airport Board, 4 miles west of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 776 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 6,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA EKX · ICAO KEKX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Elizabethtown Airport Board
- Elevation
- 776 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; weekends, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1982
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 10 ft high 299 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 10 ft high 447 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Clearance delivery | 119.45 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.675 | |
| Ekx and aWOS-3 | 118.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 270-763-6433.
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 Elizabethtown from the FAA register
35 aircraft are registered to owners in Elizabethtown, Kentucky: 31 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 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 Kentucky.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 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
- Paja, birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 05; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 05 and 23 operates continuously.
- Donald wise.
- Taxiway D closed to aircraft with wingspan more than 50 feet or more than 12500 pounds gross weight.
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.