Big Sky Airport
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| IATA: none – ICAO: KEKS – FAA LID: EKS | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Madison County | ||||||||||
| Serves | Ennis, Montana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5,423 ft / 1,653 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||||||
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 FAA Airport Master Record for EKS (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective April 5, 2012.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for EKS
- AirNav airport information for EKS
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- SkyVector aeronautical chart for EKS
