# Kearney Regional Airport (EAR / KEAR)

**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.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kear

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: EAR / KEAR
- FAA: EAR
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Kearney, Nebraska, United States
- Opened: Mar 1943
- Elevation: 2,132 ft / 650 m
- Coordinates: 40.7270, -99.0068
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 7,094 ft / 2,162 m
- Instrument procedures: 5 approaches
- Passengers: 48,427 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://www.flykearney.org/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearney_Regional_Airport (8 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10851873
- Weather station: KEAR
- Ident: KEAR

## Timeline

- Mar 1943: Kearney Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 18/36 | 7,094 ft / 2,162 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 187° / 007° | yes |
| 13/31 | 4,498 ft / 1,371 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Concrete | 141° / 321° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00541AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 10,063 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 8,919 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 9,376 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 8,816 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 42,335 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 23,384 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 49,974 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 44,917 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 29,346 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 28,273 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 48,427 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [DEN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kden.md) Denver International Airport · United States · 304 mi / 490 km · United Express
- [ORD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kord.md) Chicago O'Hare International Airport · United States · 582 mi / 936 km · United Express

### Cargo (1)

- [OMA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/koma.md) Eppley Airfield · United States · 167 mi / 269 km · Suburban Air Freight, FedEx Express

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from EAR, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- UA [United Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/united-express) · 2

### Cargo (2)

- FX [FedEx Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fedex-express) · 1
- Suburban Air Freight · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 48K (2025) | #2,103 of 3,974 | #484 in North America | #328 in US |
| Longest runway | 7,094 ft / 2,162 m | #3,406 of 29,858 | #784 in North America | #592 in US |
| Elevation | 2,132 ft / 650 m | =8,292 of 43,403 | #3,822 in North America | #2,905 in US |
| Age | Opened 1943 | =2,016 of 15,079 | =1,078 in North America | =1,034 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 123.875 |
| CNTR | MINNEAPOLIS CNTR | 119.400 |
| RDO | COLUMBUS RDO | 122.550 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [GRI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kgri.md) Central Nebraska Regional Airport · 40 mi / 64 km
- [MCK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmck.md) McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport · 91 mi / 146 km
- [LBF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/klbf.md) North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field · 92 mi / 148 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Kearney Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kearney_Regional_Airport&oldid=1366692496), revision of 29 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kear/data