Elkhart Municipal Airport | |
Iata: | EKI |
Icao: | KEKM |
Faa: | EKM |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | City of Elkhart |
City-Served: | Elkhart, Indiana |
Elevation-F: | 778 |
Elevation-M: | 237 |
Coordinates: | 41.7194°N -86.0033°W |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Indiana |
Pushpin Label: | EKM |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
R1-Number: | 9/27 |
R1-Length-F: | 6,500 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,981 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 18/36 |
R2-Length-F: | 4,001 |
R2-Length-M: | 1,220 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
R3-Number: | 8/26 |
R3-Length-F: | 2,500 |
R3-Length-M: | 762 |
R3-Surface: | Turf |
Stat-Year: | 2005 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations |
Stat1-Data: | 33,211 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft |
Stat2-Data: | 73 |
Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Elkhart Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Elkhart, a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Elkhart Municipal Airport is assigned EKM by the FAA and EKI by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KEKM.[2]
Elkhart Municipal Airport covers an area of 640acres at an elevation of 778 feet (237 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 is 6,500 by 120 feet (1,981 x 37 m) and 18/36 is 4,001 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m). It also has one turf runway designated 8/26 which measures 2,500 by 100 feet (762 x 30 m).
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 33,211 aircraft operations, an average of 90 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 73 aircraft based at this airport: 62% single-engine, 23% multi-engine, 8% jet, 4% helicopter and 3% military.