MCK

McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport

ICAO KMCK40.2078°N 100.5928°W2,583 ft / 787 mMedium airport
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McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport (IATA: MCK, ICAO: KMCK) is a medium airport in McCook, Nebraska, United States. It opened in May 1946. It has 3 runways; the longest is 6,450 ft (1,966 m). In 2025 it handled 5 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1946–1946
MAY 1946
OpenedMcCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
12/30131° / 311° · LIT
LENGTH6,450 ft1,966 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEConcrete
04/22046° / 226° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 ft1,219 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEConcrete
17/35181° / 001°
LENGTH1,330 ft405 mWIDTH160 ft49 mSURFACEGrass

Passengers per year

2015–2025
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsDenver Air Connection 1FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MCK. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers5K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,929of 3,974 · #766 North America · #554 USLongest runway6,450 ft1,966 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,153of 29,823 · =1,068 North America · =820 USElevation2,583 ft787 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=6,664of 43,341 · #3,176 North America · #2,447 USAgeOpened 19462026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,744of 15,079 · =1,680 North America · =1,626 USRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 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
ASOSASOS119.025
CNTRDENVER CNTR118.475
RDOCOLUMBUS RDO122.600
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800