Cook Airfield
K50 · Rose Hill, Kansas · Butler County · map
Cook Airfield is a public-use airport owned by Crosswinds Aviation INC., 2 miles west of Rose Hill, Kansas, 1,342 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 3,471 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA K50
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Crosswinds Aviation INC.
- Elevation
- 1,342 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1960
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,471 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 01/19 | 1,600 × 50 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 198 ft, trees 36 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 15 ft high 255 ft from the end
- Runway 01: hangar 25 ft high 235 ft from the end
- Runway 19: tree 30 ft high 63 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Rose Hill from the FAA register
25 aircraft are registered to owners in Rose Hill, Kansas: 25 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 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
- Activate beacon - 123.5.
- Activate PAPI runway 17 and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - 123.5.
- Fuel SELF-SVC.
- 30 feet trees, 90 feet dstc, 100 feet R.
- Obstruction clnc slope 0:1 to dthr ovr 25 feet hangar, 50 feet dstc, 130 feet R.
- Runway 17 clnc slope 21:1 to 190 feet displaced thld.
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.