RKD

Knox County Regional Airport

ICAO KRKD44.0601°N 69.0992°W55 ft / 17 mMedium airport
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Knox County Regional Airport
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Knox County Regional Airport (IATA: RKD, ICAO: KRKD) is a medium airport in Rockland, Maine, United States. It opened in 1943. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,412 ft (1,650 m). In 2025 it handled 13 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1943–1979
1943
OpenedKnox County Regional Airport opens.
30 MAY 1979
DisasterDowneast Flight 46.17 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Downeast AirKnox County Regional Airport
13/31111° / 291° · LIT
LENGTH5,412 ft1,650 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt
03/21013° / 193° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 ft1,219 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
13K
14K
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14K
14K
4K
12K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RKD. From the Wikipedia article “Knox County Regional Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers13K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,599of 3,974 · #624 North America · #433 USLongest runway5,412 ft1,650 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,591of 29,823 · =1,802 North America · #1,447 USElevation55 ft17 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,895of 43,341 · =17,652 North America · =14,599 USAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =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

3 channels
A/DBRUNSWICK APP/DEP123.800
AWOSAWOS 3119.025
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.050