Kissimmee Gateway Airport
ISM · KISM · Orlando, Florida · Osceola County · map
Kissimmee Gateway Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kissimmee, 16 miles southwest of Orlando, Florida, 82 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 15/33, is 6,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ISM · ICAO KISM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kissimmee
- Elevation
- 82 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 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: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 6,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 06/24 | 5,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), right-hand traffic pattern, tree 21 ft high 1,035 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, four lights on the left, fence 6 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 06: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 34 ft high 1,170 ft from the end
- Runway 24: PAPI, four lights on the left, pole 40 ft high 1,585 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.45 | Kissimmee |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 128.775 | Kissimmee |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.7 | Kissimmee |
| Clearance delivery When tower closed | 123.95 | Kissimmee |
| Approach and departure | 119.4 | Kissimmee |
| Alyna and star | 124.8 | Kissimmee |
| Bitho and star · Mungi and star · Snfld and star | 128.375 | Kissimmee |
| Leese and star · Shrek and star | 128.675 | Kissimmee |
| Jafar and star · Jokrs and star · Leese and star | 134.05 | Kissimmee |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 407-847-0533.
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 Orlando from the FAA register
588 aircraft are registered to owners in Orlando, Florida: 324 piston singles, 64 business jets, 56 piston twins, 42 helicopters, 31 drones. 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 Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 57 since 1982, 7 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
- Noise sensitive area 1/2 MI north of aer 24. Departure runway 06 early turnouts NA.
- When the control tower closed activate malsf runway 15; runway end identifier lights runway 06 and 24 and 33; PAPI runway 06, 15, 24, and 33; medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 and 15/33 - the common traffic frequency.
- +6 feet fence 190 feet from runway end 245 feet R of centerline.
- Holding bay rstrd to aircraft with wingspan of 49 feet or less.
- Calm wind runway.
- Mult unlgt obstructions first 3000 feet; 250-500 feet east and west of centerline.
- Runway 33 approach 34:1 to aer
- Required all jets/turbo props use nbaa CLOSE-IN procedure.
- Ultralight aircraft NA except prior permission required - amgr.
- Low lvl VFR helicopter, wildlife and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Helicopter run on landing NA.
- Runway 15 has unlgted obstructions present in the approach due to 52 feet trees 1960 feet bfr aer.
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.
