Lincoln Airport
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Lincoln Airport is a public-use airport, 4 miles northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1,219 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 12,901 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LNK · ICAO KLNK
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,219 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 0600 - 2200
- Attended
- around the clock
- 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
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 12,901 × 200 ft | Asphalt and concrete, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 8,649 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 5,801 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 14: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 363 ft, 8,286 ft available for landing
- Runway 32: VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 470 ft, 7,816 ft available for landing, pole 59 ft high 2,475 ft from the end
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left, 5,400 ft available for landing
- Runway 35: PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.5 | Lincoln |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 118.05 | Lincoln |
| Clearance delivery | 120.7 | Lincoln |
| Ground | 121.9 | Lincoln |
| Tower (secondary) | 125.7 | Lincoln |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace | 124.0 | Lincoln |
| Arng and operations | 138.75 | Lincoln |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 402-417-0560.
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Aircraft registered in Lincoln from the FAA register
210 aircraft are registered to owners in Lincoln, Nebraska: 143 piston singles, 22 business jets, 15 drones, 12 piston twins, 9 turboprops. 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 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
- Index C lvl rescue and firefighting (ARFF) eqpt provided; for rescue and firefighting (ARFF) service - the common traffic frequency.
- Birds in the vicinity of airport.
- When the control tower closed, approach lights (MALSR) runways 18 and 36 operates continuously on low intst; odals runway 35 operates continuously on med intst; runway end identifier lights runway 14 operates continuously on low intst; runway end identifier lights runway 17 operates continuously on med intst; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 and runway 17/35 operates continuously on low intst; high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 operates continuously on med intst. VASI runway 32; PAPI runways 14, 17, 18, 35, and 36 operates continuously.
- Hvy military jet pattern altitude 1781 feet above ground level
- Executive director.
- Calm wind runway.
- Approach holdline on south taxiway a.
- VASI unusable beyond 8 degreess left of centerline and 6 degreess right of centerline.
- Approach ratio from dthr 49:1.
- Prior permission required to park on ang ramp.
- Arng: operates 1300-2100Z++ TUE-FRI, ltd tran maintenance.
- Ensure correct runway lineup. Runway 17/35 is the shrtr, parl runway on east side of airport.
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.