Kirksville Regional Airport
Domestic airport serving Kirksville, Missouri, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kirksville Regional Airport (IATA: IRK, ICAO: KIRK, FAA LID: IRK) is four miles south of Kirksville, Missouri,[1] on the west side of US highway 63.[2] One airline schedules passenger flights, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Kirksville | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Kirksville, Missouri | ||||||||||||||
Location | Pettis Township, near Millard | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 966 ft / 294 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°05′36″N 092°32′42″W | ||||||||||||||
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Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 684 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[3] 926 in 2009 and 2,127 in 2010.[4] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).[5]
Cape Air is the current airline, averaging 900 to 1,000 passengers per month[6] on three daily round trips to St. Louis Lambert International Airport.[7] After Cape Air notified the city in November 2022 of their plans to terminate their service, the Kirksville City Council approved a contract on February 6, 2023 with Contour Airlines, with service beginning in June to Chicago O'Hare International Airport.[8]