Airport type Public Serves McCook, Nebraska Website MCK Website Address McCook, NE 69001, USA Elevation 787 m | Owner City of McCook Elevation AMSL 2,583 ft / 787 m 12/30 6,449 Code MCK Phone +1 308-345-2022 | |
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McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport (IATA: MCK, ICAO: KMCK, FAA LID: MCK) is two miles east of McCook, in Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was formerly McCook Municipal Airport and McCook Regional Airport. It sees one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
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Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 1,848 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,677 in 2009 and 1,993 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires 2,500 enplanements per year).
The airport is named after McCook-born Ben Nelson, a United States Senator and the 37th Governor of Nebraska.
History
During World War II a larger training airfield was built some eight miles north of McCook Regional to train heavy bomber crews. Known, somewhat confusingly, as McCook Army Airfield the base closed in 1945 and was transferred to state control and renamed McCook State Airfield. It closed for good in 1969 and since has largely reverted to farmland, but the five massive World War II-era hangars are still visible from the air.
Facilities
The airport covers 667 acres (270 ha) at an elevation of 2,583 feet (787 m). It has three runways: 12/30 is 6,449 by 100 feet (1,966 x 30 m) concrete; 4/22 is 4,000 by 75 feet (1,219 x 23 m) concrete; 17/35 is 1,350 by 160 feet (411 x 49 m) turf.
In the year ending May 31, 2010 the airport had 16,900 aircraft operations, average 46 per day: 89% general aviation, 10% airline, and 1% military. 29 aircraft were then based at this airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.
Airline and destinations
Scheduled passenger service:
Former airlines
Air Midwest (U.S. Airways Express) began service on October 29, 2006, with two daily flights to Grand Island and on to Omaha Eppley Airfield and Kansas City International Airport.