BKL
Burke Lakefront Airport
Burke Lakefront Airport (IATA: BKL, ICAO: KBKL) is a medium airport in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It opened in Apr 1948. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,604 ft (2,013 m). In 2019 it handled 25 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1948–1948APR 1948
OpenedBurke Lakefront Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF06L/24R058° / 238° · LIT
LENGTH6,604 ft2,013 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
06R/24L058° / 238° · LIT
LENGTH5,197 ft1,584 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2012–2019246K
204K
209K
5K
19K
24K
22K
25K
1213141516171819
Routes
5 destinations · 1 countryYear-round5
YIPWillow Run AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest173 km107 miLCKRickenbacker International AirportUnited States · AirNet Express217 km135 miMGYDayton-Wright Brothers AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest303 km188 miAZOKalamazoo/Battle Creek International AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest330 km205 miHAOButler Co Regional Airport - Hogan FieldUnited States · Central Air Southwest339 km211 miMost destinationsCentral Air Southwest 4AirNet Express 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BKL. From the Wikipedia article “Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
7 channelsA/DCLEVELAND APP/DEP125.350
ASOSASOS125.250
ATISATIS125.250
CTAFCTAF124.300
GNDGND121.900
TWRLAKEFRONT TWR124.300
UNICUNICOM122.950