EAR

Kearney Regional Airport

ICAO KEAR40.7270°N 99.0068°W2,132 ft / 650 mMedium airport
On the map
Kearney-6apr1999
United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Kearney Regional Airport (IATA: EAR, ICAO: KEAR) is a medium airport in Kearney, Nebraska, United States. It opened in Mar 1943. It has 2 runways; the longest is 7,094 ft (2,162 m). In 2025 it handled 48 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943
MAR 1943
OpenedKearney Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Kearney Regional Airport Terminal
18/36187° / 007° · LIT
LENGTH7,094 ft2,162 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEConcrete
13/31141° / 321° · LIT
LENGTH4,498 ft1,371 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2015–2025
10K
9K
9K
9K
42K
23K
50K
45K
29K
28K
48K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Express 2Suburban Air Freight 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from EAR. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kearney Regional Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers48K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,103of 3,974 · #484 North America · #328 USLongest runway7,094 ft2,162 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,406of 29,823 · #784 North America · #592 USElevation2,132 ft650 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=8,288of 43,341 · #3,819 North America · #2,902 USAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 USRunways21 · 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

4 channels
AWOSAWOS 3123.875
CNTRMINNEAPOLIS CNTR119.400
RDOCOLUMBUS RDO122.550
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800