# Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (MKC / KMKC)

**Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport** (IATA: MKC, ICAO: KMKC) is a medium airport in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It opened in 1927. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,827 ft (2,081 m). In 2025 it handled 10 thousand passengers.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MKC / KMKC
- FAA: MKC
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Opened: 1927
- Elevation: 757 ft / 231 m
- Coordinates: 39.1232, -94.5928
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 6,827 ft / 2,081 m
- Instrument procedures: 7 approaches, 6 departures, 3 arrivals
- Passengers: 9,690 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-6/-5 · America/Chicago
- Website: http://www.flymkc.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Wheeler_Downtown_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949049
- Weather station: KMKC
- Ident: KMKC

## Timeline

- 1927: Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01/19 | 6,827 ft / 2,081 m | 150 ft / 46 m | Concrete | 013° / 193° | yes |
| 04/22 | 5,050 ft / 1,539 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 038° / 218° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00213AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 5,944 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 6,135 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 8,338 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 8,598 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 10,241 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 9,690 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [LCK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/klck.md) Rickenbacker International Airport · United States · 624 mi / 1,004 km · AirNet Express

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (1)

- USC [AirNet Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/airnet-express) · 1

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 10K (2025) | #2,708 of 3,974 | #661 in North America | #464 in US |
| Longest runway | 6,827 ft / 2,081 m | =3,667 of 29,858 | =894 in North America | =679 in US |
| Elevation | 757 ft / 231 m | =22,234 of 43,403 | =10,514 in North America | =8,670 in US |
| Age | Opened 1927 | =280 of 15,079 | =42 in North America | =40 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | APP/DEP | 119.000 |
| ATIS | ATIS | 120.750 |
| CLD | CLNC DEL | 121.900 |
| GND | GND | 121.900 |
| RDO | COLUMBIA RDO | 122.600 |
| TWR | DOWNTOWN TWR | 133.300 |
| UNIC | UNICOM | 122.950 |

## Nearby airports

- [MCI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmci.md) Kansas City International Airport · 14 mi / 22 km
- [STJ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kstj.md) Rosecrans Memorial Airport · 48 mi / 77 km
- [TOP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ktop.md) Philip Billard Municipal Airport · 55 mi / 89 km
- [FOE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kfoe.md) Topeka Regional Airport · 59 mi / 94 km
- [SZL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kszl.md) Whiteman Air Force Base · 62 mi / 100 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: “Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_B._Wheeler_Downtown_Airport&oldid=1364273094), revision of 15 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/kmkc/data