# Garden City Regional Airport (GCK / KGCK)

**Garden City Regional Airport** (IATA: GCK, ICAO: KGCK) is a medium airport in Garden City, Kansas, United States. It opened in Feb 1944. It has 2 runways; the longest is 7,299 ft (2,225 m). In 2025 it handled 71 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: GCK / KGCK
- FAA: GCK
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Garden City, Kansas, United States
- Opened: Feb 1944
- Elevation: 2,891 ft / 881 m
- Coordinates: 37.9275, -100.7240
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 7,299 ft / 2,225 m
- Instrument procedures: 10 approaches
- Passengers: 71,229 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://www.fly2gck.com
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City_Regional_Airport (10 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3275259
- Weather station: KGCK
- Ident: KGCK

## Timeline

- Feb 1944: Garden City Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17/35 | 7,299 ft / 2,225 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 180° / 360° | yes |
| 12/30 | 5,700 ft / 1,737 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 135° / 315° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00491AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 53,979 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 53,813 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 53,327 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 49,977 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 49,592 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 32,916 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 56,842 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 60,627 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 57,290 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 63,827 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 71,229 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (1)

- [DFW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kdfw.md) Dallas Fort Worth International Airport · United States · 405 mi / 651 km · American Eagle

### Cargo (1)

- [ICT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kict.md) Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport · United States · 181 mi / 291 km · FedEx Express

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- [American Eagle](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/american-eagle) · 1

### Cargo (1)

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

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 71K (2025) | #1,936 of 3,974 | #436 in North America | #294 in US |
| Longest runway | 7,299 ft / 2,225 m | #3,234 of 29,858 | #727 in North America | #545 in US |
| Elevation | 2,891 ft / 881 m | #5,772 of 43,403 | #2,847 in North America | #2,191 in US |
| Age | Opened 1944 | =2,300 of 15,079 | =1,299 in North America | =1,249 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 121.325 |
| CNTR | KANSAS CITY CNTR | 125.200 |
| CTAF | CTAF | 118.150 |
| GND | GND | 119.000 |
| RDO | WICHITA RDO | 122.450 |
| TWR | TWR | 118.150 |
| UNIC | UNICOM | 122.950 |

## Nearby airports

- [US-6322](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-6322.md) Farris Airport · 3.1 mi / 5.0 km
- [30K](https://dromopedia.com/airports/k30k.md) Ingalls Municipal Airport · 11 mi / 17 km
- [US-8765](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-8765.md) Air-Ag Airport · 16 mi / 25 km
- [8K8](https://dromopedia.com/airports/8k8.md) Cimarron Municipal Airport · 21 mi / 35 km
- [1KS7](https://dromopedia.com/airports/1ks7.md) Hitch Feeders Ii Inc. Airport · 24 mi / 38 km
- [SN55](https://dromopedia.com/airports/sn55.md) R J C Farms Inc Airport · 25 mi / 40 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: “Garden City Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garden_City_Regional_Airport&oldid=1365146767), revision of 20 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/kgck/data