Kirksville Regional
IRK · KIRK · Kirksville, Missouri · Adair County · map
Kirksville Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kirksville, 6 miles southeast of Kirksville, Missouri, 966 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 6,005 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 17 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,888 takeoffs and landings a year. About 5,366 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KIRK · observed 4:55 pm CDT (21:55 UTC), 58 minutes ago
- Wind from the south-southwest (200°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 77°F (25°C), dew point 51°F (11°C)
- Altimeter 29.95 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 KIRK 062155Z AUTO 20006KT 10SM 25/11 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP141 T02500106 $
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 IRK · ICAO KIRK
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kirksville
- Elevation
- 966 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 5:30 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
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1941
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,005 × 100 ft | Concrete, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 1,370 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: VASI, four boxes on the left
- Runway 36: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 09: trees 72 ft high 1,440 ft from the end
- Runway 27: trees 47 ft high 1,240 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Irk and automated weather (ASOS) | 121.125 | |
| Kirksville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.6 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 660-202-8736.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,888, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Kirksville from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Kirksville, Missouri: 23 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Missouri.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 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 high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; VASI runways 18 and 36; runway end identifier lights runway 18 and approach lights (MALSR) runway 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport director
- Runway 09/27 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- 09/27 marked with yellow cones.
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.