Marshall Army Airfield
FRI · KFRI · Fort Riley (Junction City), Kansas · Riley County · map
Marshall Army Airfield is a private airport owned by the US Army Aeronautical Svcs Agency, 3 miles northeast of Fort Riley (Junction City), Kansas, 1,066 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 4,503 feet of concrete. It has a control tower.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FRI · ICAO KFRI
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Army
- Owner
- US Army Aeronautical Svcs Agency
- Elevation
- 1,066 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,035 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower with approach control · operates 1400++ - 0700z++ mon-thu; 1400-2200z++ friday, except holidays.
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1941
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 4,503 × 100 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
| H1 | 75 × 75 ft | Concrete |
- Runway 04: ILS with DME, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 126.2 | Marshall |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 121.025 | Marshall |
| Clearance delivery | 119.65 | Marshall |
| Ground | 140.2 | Marshall |
| Approach and departure | 121.25 | Marshall |
| Fri and vor | 109.4 | |
| Manhattan and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.35 | Marshall |
| Operations Afld operations | 139.9 | Marshall |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Freeman Field (4 nm west), Manhattan Regional (7 nm northeast), Salina Regional (44 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Freeman Field (4 nm west), Manhattan Regional (7 nm northeast), Herington Regional (22 nm south), Abilene Municipal (24 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Kansas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Uhf CTAF- 248.65.
- Activate odals runway 04; high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Operates 1300Z++ Monday - 0500Z++Saturday, except holidays.
- H1 - hospital southeast corner.
- Uhf the common traffic frequency frequency is 248.65.
- Military use: R3602 weather 121.025.
- Traffic pattern: left and right. R/west 1800 FT' F/west 2600 feet. F/west restricted to south traffic pattern only.
- R/west aircraft operates with minimum light sunset to sunrise. Migratory birds vicinity of afld.
- Full service operates 0600Z++ MON- 0600Z++Saturday except holidays. Operates hour may vary with local flying schedule.
- Caution: when class D effective drone (UAS) operates surface to 2000 feet above sea level. Fbpar and reflectors 280 feet FR runway centerline.
- Communications: pmsv METRO-C785-239-6562.
- Operates afld operations 1300-0700Z++ MON-FRI; 1300-2200Z++ Friday except holidays.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fort Riley (Junction City) from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Fort Riley (Junction City), KS as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Ks Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · Manhattan, 8 miles away K-State Flying Club is a flying club based at Manhattan Regional Airport in Manhattan, Kansas.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Kansas 1,146 since 1982 · 149 in the last ten years
- Ks Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Kansas 150 landing places
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FRI.json.
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 27, 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.