List of airports in Kentucky

This is a list of airports in Kentucky (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.

## Airports

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This list contains the following information:

* City served – The city generally associated with the airport, as per the airport's master record with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. It is not meant to be a complete list of cities served, which can be found in or added to each airport's Wikipedia article.
* FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
* IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
* ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
* Airport name – The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
* Role – One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2021 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report:
* P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
* L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
* M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
* S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
* N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
* CS: Commercial service – nonprimary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
* R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
* GA: General aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
* Enplanements – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2019, as per FAA records released 2020.

City served  | FAA  | IATA  | ICAO  | Airport name  | Role  | Enplanements (2019)

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|  |  |  | Commercial service – primary airports |  |
Cincinnati/Covington | CVG | CVG  | KCVG  | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport | P-M  | 4,269,258
Lexington | LEX | LEX  | KLEX  | Blue Grass Airport | P-S  | 657,018
Louisville | SDF | SDF  | KSDF  | Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (Standiford Field)  | P-S  | 1,877,861
Owensboro | OWB | OWB  | KOWB  | Owensboro–Daviess County Regional Airport | P-N  | 19,532
Paducah | PAH | PAH  | KPAH  | Barkley Regional Airport | P-N  | 20,934
|  |  |  | Reliever airports |  |
Louisville | LOU | LOU  | KLOU  | Bowman Field | R  | 13
|  |  |  | General aviation airports |  |
Ashland | DWU  |  | KDWU  | Ashland Regional Airport | GA  | 0
Bardstown | BRY  | BRY  | KBRY  | Samuels Field | GA  | 10
Bowling Green | BWG  | BWG  | KBWG  | Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport | GA  | 1,210
Cadiz | 1M9  |  |  | Lake Barkley State Park Airport | GA  | 0
Calvert City | M34  |  |  | Kentucky Dam State Park Airport | GA  | 0
Campbellsville | AAS  |  | KAAS  | Taylor County Airport | GA  | 0
Cynthiana | 0I8  |  |  | Cynthiana-Harrison County Airport | GA  | 0
Danville | DVK  |  | KDVK  | Stuart Powell Field | GA  | 7
Elizabethtown | EKX  | EKX  | KEKX  | Elizabethtown Regional Airport (Addington Field)  | GA  | 52
Falls of Rough | 2I3  |  |  | Rough River State Park Airport | GA  | 0
Falmouth | K62  |  |  | Gene Snyder Airport | GA  | 0
Flemingsburg | FGX  |  | KFGX  | Fleming-Mason Airport | GA  | 15
Frankfort | FFT  | FFT  | KFFT  | Capital City Airport | GA  | 39
Fulton | 1M7  |  |  | Fulton Airport | GA  | 0
Georgetown | 27K  |  |  | Georgetown-Scott County Airport (Marshall Field)  | GA  | 29
Glasgow | GLW  | GLW  | KGLW  | Glasgow Municipal Airport | GA  | 0
Greenville | M21  |  |  | Muhlenberg County Airport | GA  | 0
Hardinsburg | I93  |  |  | Breckinridge County Airport | GA  | 0
Harlan | I35  |  |  | Tucker-Guthrie Memorial Airport | GA  | 0
Hartford | JQD  |  | KJQD  | Ohio County Airport | GA  | 0
Hazard | CPF  |  | KCPF  | Wendell H. Ford Airport | GA  | 4
Henderson | EHR  |  | KEHR  | Henderson City-County Airport | GA  | 26
Hopkinsville | HVC  |  | KHVC  | Hopkinsville-Christian County Airport | GA  | 0
Jackson | JKL  |  | KJKL  | Julian Carroll Airport | GA  | 0
Jamestown | K24  |  |  | Russell County Airport | GA  | 0
Leitchfield | M20  |  |  | Grayson County Airport | GA  | 0
Lewisport | KY8  |  |  | Hancock County Airport (Ron Lewis Field)  | GA  | 0
London | LOZ  | LOZ  | KLOZ  | London-Corbin Airport (Magee Field)  | GA  | 45
Madisonville | 2I0  |  |  | Madisonville Municipal Airport | GA  | 0
Marion | 5M9  |  |  | Marion-Crittenden County Airport | GA  | 0
Mayfield | M25  |  |  | Mayfield Graves County Airport | GA  | 0
Middlesboro | 1A6  |  |  | Middlesboro–Bell County Airport | GA  | 0
Monticello | EKQ  |  | KEKQ  | Wayne County Airport | GA  | 0
Morehead | SYM |  | KSYM  | Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A. Thomas Regional Airport | GA  | 0
Mount Sterling | IOB  |  | KIOB  | Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Airport | GA  | 6
Murray | CEY  | CEY  | KCEY  | Murray-Calloway County Airport (Kyle-Oakley Field)  | GA  | 11
Pikeville | PBX  | PVL  | KPBX  | Pike County Airport (Hatcher Field)  | GA  | 0
Pine Knot | 18I  |  |  | McCreary County Airport | GA  | 0
Prestonsburg | SJS |  | KSJS  | Big Sandy Regional Airport | GA  | 1
Princeton | 2M0  |  |  | Princeton-Caldwell County Airport | GA  | 0
Richmond | RGA  |  | KRGA  | Central Kentucky Regional Airport (was Madison Airport) | GA  | 3
Russellville | 4M7  |  |  | Russellville-Logan County Airport | GA  | 0
Somerset | SME  | SME  | KSME  | Lake Cumberland Regional Airport (was Somerset-Pulaski County Airport) | GA  | 29
Sparta | 8GK |  |  | Gallatin County Airport | GA  | 0
Springfield | 6I2  |  |  | Lebanon-Springfield Airport (George Hoerter Field)  | GA  | 6
Stanton | I50  |  |  | Stanton Airport | GA  | 0
Sturgis | TWT  |  | KTWT  | Sturgis Municipal Airport | GA  | 0
Tompkinsville | TZV  |  | KTZV  | Tompkinsville-Monroe County Airport | GA  | 0
West Liberty | 9I3  |  |  | West Liberty Airport | GA  | 0
Williamsburg | BYL  |  | KBYL  | Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport | GA  | 0
|  |  |  | Other public-use airports (not listed in NPIAS)  |  |
Columbia | I96  |  |  | Columbia-Adair County Airport |  |
Dawson Springs | 8M7  |  |  | Tradewater Airport |  |
Liberty | I53  |  |  | Liberty-Casey County Airport |  |
Providence | 8M9  |  |  | Providence-Webster County Airport |  |
|  |  |  | Other military airports |  |
Fort Knox | FTK  | FTK  | KFTK  | Godman Army Airfield |  |
Hopkinsville | HOP  | HOP  | KHOP  | Campbell Army Airfield (Fort Campbell)  |  |
Lexington | LSD  | LSD  | KLSD  | Blue Grass Station Army Heliport |  |
|  |  |  | Private-use airports |  |
Paintsville | 9KY9  |  |  | Paintsville-Prestonsburg Combs Field |  |
|  |  |  | Known former airports |  |
Albany | ~~44I~~ |  |  | Dale Hollow Regional Airport (Petro Field) (closed 2006?) [1] |  |
Elizabethtown | ~~O19~~ |  |  | Hardin County Airport (Ben Floyd Field) (closed 1979) [2] |  |
Elkton | ~~1M6~~ |  |  | Standard Field (closed 2006?) [3] |  |
Morehead | ~~I32~~ |  |  | Morehead-Rowan County Airport (closed 2007) | ~~GA~~ |
Morganfield |  |  |  | Breckenridge Army Airfield / Morganfield Airport (closed 1998) [4] |  |
Olive Hill | 2I2  |  |  | Olive Hill Airport (Sellers' Field) (closed indefinitely, FAA record still active) |  |
Paducah | ~~5KY3~~ |  |  | Farrington Airpark/West Kentucky Airpark (formerly public-use, closed 2000? FAA: FIO)[5] |  |
Whitesburg |  | ~~BRG~~ |  | Whitesburg Municipal Airport (closed 1990s?) [6] |  |

## See also

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* Essential Air Service
* Kentucky World War II Army Airfields
* WikiProject Aviation - Airline destinations in Kentucky

## Notes

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1. ^ "AirNav: 44I - Dale Hollow Regional Airport (Petro Field)". Archived from the original on September 16, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
2. ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Kentucky". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013.
3. ^ "AirNav: 1M6 - Standard Field Airport". Archived from the original on January 3, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
4. ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Kentucky". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013.
5. ^ Freeman, Paul. "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western Kentucky". airfields-freeman.com. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
6. ^ "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Eastern Kentucky". Archived from the original on February 28, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2008.

## References

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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

* FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
* National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2017–2021), released September 2016
* Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2019 and 2020, updated November 8, 2021

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC)

* Kentucky Department of Aviation
* "2008 Airport Directory" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 31, 2009.

Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list

* Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
* Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Kentucky – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
* Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Kentucky – used for information on former airports

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