Medicine Lodge Airport
K51 · Medicine Lodge, Kansas · Barber County · map
Medicine Lodge Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southeast of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, 1,549 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,200 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA K51
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,549 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,200 × 42 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: tree 60 ft high 700 ft from the end
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 200 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| K51 and aWOS-3P | 119.625 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 620-886-3290.
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Aircraft registered in Medicine Lodge from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Medicine Lodge, Kansas: 5 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Fuel 24 hour self serve, northeast ramp.
- 6 feet fence 143 feet dstc.
- Dthr not lighted.
- No terminal facilities.
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.