Amelia Earhart Airport
K59 · Atchison, Kansas · Atchison County · map
Amelia Earhart Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Atchison, 2 miles west of Atchison, Kansas, 1,073 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA K59
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Atchison
- Elevation
- 1,073 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1952
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,000 × 48 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: trees 60 ft high 1,173 ft from the end
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 202 ft, road 15 ft high 287 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Approach and departure | 120.35 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.7 | |
| K59 and aWOS-3PT | 123.675 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 913-367-1449.
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Aircraft registered in Atchison from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Atchison, Kansas: 20 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twin. 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 · 9 since 1982, 0 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 low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Public works director/amgr.
- Fuel 24 hour SELF-SERV.
- Extensive aerial agricultural operations.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.