Burke Lakefront Airport

ICAO KBKL41.5175°N 81.6833°W584 ft / 178 mMedium 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 · 1948–1948

APR 1948

OpenedBurke Lakefront Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

06L/24R058° / 238° · LIT

LENGTH6,604 ft2,013 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

06R/24L058° / 238° · LIT

LENGTH5,197 ft1,584 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2019

246K

204K

209K

19K

24K

22K

25K

1213141516171819

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round5

YIPWillow Run AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest173 km107 mi LCKRickenbacker International AirportUnited States · AirNet Express217 km135 mi MGYDayton-Wright Brothers AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest303 km188 mi AZOKalamazoo/Battle Creek International AirportUnited States · Central Air Southwest330 km205 mi HAOButler Co Regional Airport - Hogan FieldUnited States · Central Air Southwest339 km211 mi

Most 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 · country

Passengers25K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,353of 3,974 · #549 North America · #376 US Longest runway6,604 ft2,013 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,781of 29,823 · =941 North America · =718 US Elevation584 ft178 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#25,672of 43,341 · #12,352 North America · #10,299 US AgeOpened 19482026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,279of 15,079 · =2,168 North America · =2,110 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: 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 channels

A/DCLEVELAND APP/DEP125.350

ASOSASOS125.250

ATISATIS125.250

CTAFCTAF124.300

GNDGND121.900

TWRLAKEFRONT TWR124.300

UNICUNICOM122.950