Big Sky Airport

Big Sky Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KEKS – FAA LID: EKS
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Madison County
Serves Ennis, Montana
Elevation AMSL 5,423 ft / 1,653 m
Coordinates 45°16′28″N 111°38′56″W / 45.27444°N 111.64889°W / 45.27444; -111.64889
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16/34 6,600 2,012 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations 11,000
Based aircraft 19

Big Sky Airport (ICAO: KEKS, FAA LID: EKS) (also known as Ennis Big Sky Airport) is a county owned, public use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southeast of the central business district of Ennis, a town in Madison County, Montana, United States.[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned EKS by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Big Sky Airport has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,600 by 75 feet (2,012 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 16, 2009, the airport had 11,000 aircraft operations, an average of 30 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi. At that time there were 19 aircraft based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 16% multi-engine, and 5% jet.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Master Record for EKS (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB)" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Ennis–Big Sky Airport (FAA: EKS, ICAO: KEKS)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved June 3, 2012.

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