Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field
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Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, 757 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01/19, is 6,827 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MKC · ICAO KMKC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Kansas City
- Elevation
- 757 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; 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
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 6,827 × 150 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 5,050 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: VASI, four boxes on the left, runway lead-in lights, threshold displaced 299 ft, 6,528 ft available for landing, tree 38 ft high 747 ft from the end
- Runway 19: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with flashers (MALSF), threshold displaced 301 ft, 6,526 ft available for landing, road 20 ft high 700 ft from the end
- Runway 04: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 500 ft, 4,270 ft available for landing, berm 20 ft high 450 ft from the end
- Runway 22: VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 699 ft, 4,351 ft available for landing, rr 37 ft high 225 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Mkc and automated weather (ASOS) | 120.75 | Downtown |
| Clearance delivery Pre Taxi Clearance · Ground | 121.9 | Downtown |
| Tower | 133.3 | Downtown |
| Approach and departure | 118.4 | Downtown |
| Mkc and vot | 108.6 | |
| Braymer and star · Jhawk and star · Tyger and star | 120.95 | Downtown |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 816-329-2843.
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Aircraft registered in Kansas City from the FAA register
230 aircraft are registered to owners in Kansas City, Missouri: 132 piston singles, 33 airliners and large jets, 32 business jets, 10 helicopters, 9 piston twins. 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 Missouri.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 38 since 1982, 6 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
- Engineered materials arresting sysytem (emas) 263 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 01.
- Engineered materials arresting sysytem (emas) 287 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 19.
- 100LL self service available 24 hours with credit card only on west side near general aviation terminal.
- RY19 malsf augmented with rail.
- Road and fence 0-200' from threshold.
- Road and railroad 0-200' from threshold.
- Unusable beyond 8 degreess left of crs.
- Approach ratio at displaced threshold 47:1.
- Approach ratio at displaced threshold 24:1.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Flocks of pigeons in the vicinity of departure eor 04.
- Runway 04/22 VFR east traffic pattern: departing runway 04 right traffic attain traffic pattern altitude prior to turning crosswind. Landing runway 22 mntn traffic pattern altitude until passing north of Missouri river.
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.