Abilene Municipal
K78 · Abilene, Kansas · Dickinson County · map
Abilene Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Abilene Kansas, 1 mile southwest of Abilene, Kansas, 1,153 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,100 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA K78
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Abilene Kansas
- Elevation
- 1,153 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1946
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,100 × 75 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 186 ft, 3,914 ft available for landing, trees 36 ft high 745 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 746 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.25 | |
| K78 and aWOS-3P | 124.125 | |
| Salina and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.9 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 785-802-8625.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Abilene from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Abilene, Kansas: 11 piston singles, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36, PAPI runway 18 and 36, runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36 oper DUSK-2200; othr times activate -- the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self serve fuel.
- Runway end identifier lights: LOW/ MEDIUM/ high pilot controlled.
- 23 railroad, 630 feet from thld.
- Obstruction clnc slope 29:1 to displaced thld.
- Courtesy car available.
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.