McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport

ICAO KMKL35.5999°N 88.9156°W435 ft / 133 mMedium airport

McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport (IATA: MKL, ICAO: KMKL) is a medium airport in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. It opened in Jul 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 6,007 ft (1,831 m). In 2025 it handled 20 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942

JUL 1942

OpenedMcKellar-Sipes Regional Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

02/20022° / 202° · LIT

LENGTH6,007 ft1,831 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

11/29112° / 292° · LIT

LENGTH3,539 ft1,079 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

11K

10K

20K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Denver Air Connection465 km289 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Denver Air Connection715 km444 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MKL. From the Wikipedia article “Jackson Regional Airport” (revision of 20 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from MKL

Passenger1

—Denver Air Connection2

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from MKL. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers20K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,429of 3,974 · #570 North America · #394 US Longest runway6,007 ft1,831 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,517of 29,858 · =1,233 North America · =963 US Elevation435 ft133 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#28,366of 43,403 · #13,435 North America · #11,275 US AgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =885 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =435 North America · =391 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

8 channels

ASOSASOS119.325

CNTRMEMPHIS CNTR134.650

CTAFCTAF127.150

GNDGND120.900

OPSARNG OPS41.500

RDOJACKSON RDO122.200

TWRJACKSON TWR127.150

UNICUNICOM122.950