Meade Municipal
MEJ · KMEJ · Meade, Kansas · Meade County · map
Meade Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Meade, 1 mile west of Meade, Kansas, 2,527 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 4,800 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 13 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MEJ · ICAO KMEJ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Meade
- Elevation
- 2,527 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 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
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1948
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,800 × 75 ft | Concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 2,085 × 85 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 10 ft high 575 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 10 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 08: road 17 ft high 284 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Mej and aWOS-3PT | 119.425 | |
| Liberal and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.0 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 620-518-2544.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Meade from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Meade, Kansas: 12 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 turboprop, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Kansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Provided approach to each runway is maintd for a minimum 20:1 glide slope and the trsnl surface be maintd for a 7:1 slope.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 17 and 35; PAPI runway 17 and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self service.
- Taxiway 'B' closed permanently.
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.