# Kirksville Regional Airport (IRK / KIRK)

**Kirksville Regional Airport** (IATA: IRK, ICAO: KIRK) is a medium airport in Kirksville, Missouri, United States. It opened in May 1941. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,005 ft (1,830 m). In 2025 it handled 11 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: IRK / KIRK
- FAA: IRK
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Kirksville, Missouri, United States
- Opened: May 1941
- Elevation: 966 ft / 295 m
- Coordinates: 40.0935, -92.5449
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,005 ft / 1,830 m
- Instrument procedures: 3 approaches
- Passengers: 10,800 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://www.kirksvillecity.com/content/72/152/default.aspx
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksville_Regional_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6415839
- Weather station: KIRK
- Ident: KIRK

## Timeline

- May 1941: Kirksville Regional Airport opens.
- 19 Oct 2004: Corporate Airlines Flight 5966. 13 killed.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 18/36 | 6,005 ft / 1,830 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Concrete | 180° / 360° | yes |
| 09/27 | 1,370 ft / 418 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Grass | 091° / 271° |  |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00217AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 10,151 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 9,344 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 10,113 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 10,424 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 10,261 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 5,691 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 7,976 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 9,074 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 8,179 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 11,057 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 10,800 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

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

### Year-round (2)

- [ORD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kord.md) Chicago O'Hare International Airport · United States · 275 mi / 442 km · Contour Airlines
- [DFW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kdfw.md) Dallas Fort Worth International Airport · United States · 556 mi / 895 km · Contour Airlines

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- LF [Contour Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/contour-airlines) · 2

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 11K (2025) | #2,656 of 3,974 | #645 in North America | #449 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,005 ft / 1,830 m | =4,531 of 29,858 | =1,242 in North America | =972 in US |
| Elevation | 966 ft / 295 m | =18,312 of 43,403 | =8,216 in North America | =6,600 in US |
| Age | Opened 1941 | =1,548 of 15,079 | =737 in North America | =705 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 121.125 |
| CNTR | KANSAS CITY CNTR | 132.600 |
| RDO | COLUMBIA RDO | 122.200 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [OTM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kotm.md) Ottumwa Regional Airport · 70 mi / 113 km
- [UIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kuin.md) Quincy Regional Airport Baldwin Field · 72 mi / 116 km
- [BRL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kbrl.md) Southeast Iowa Regional Airport · 89 mi / 143 km
- [COU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kcou.md) Columbia Regional Airport · 90 mi / 145 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: “Kirksville Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirksville_Regional_Airport&oldid=1369249338), revision of 13 Aug 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/kirk/data