Joplin Regional
JLN · KJLN · Joplin, Missouri · Jasper County · map
Joplin Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Joplin, 4 miles north of Joplin, Missouri, 978 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 6,502 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA JLN · ICAO KJLN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Joplin
- Elevation
- 978 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 12:00 am
- 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
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,502 × 100 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 6,501 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), pole 15 ft high 675 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 13: ILS, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), threshold displaced 388 ft, 5,813 ft available for landing, tree 36 ft high 825 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), threshold displaced 299 ft, 5,813 ft available for landing, tree 47 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.8 | Joplin |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 120.85 | Joplin |
| Ground | 121.6 | Joplin |
| Edna and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.6 | Joplin |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 417-623-8892.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Joplin from the FAA register
54 aircraft are registered to owners in Joplin, Missouri: 35 piston singles, 7 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 4 piston twins, 3 turboprops, 2 gliders. 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, 3 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
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport spring and fall.
- When the control tower closed activate malsf runway 13; odals runway 31; PAPI runway 18; high-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. Approach lights (MALSR) runway 18; PAPI runway 31; high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - operates dusk to dawn.
- Approach ratio from displaced threshold 33:1
- Approach ratio from displaced threshold 32:1
- Prior permission required 48 hours for aircraft carrying hazardous or explosive cargo.
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.