Topeka Regional Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Topeka, Kansas | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,078 ft / 329 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°57′03″N 95°39′49″W / 38.95083°N 95.66361°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | http://www.mtaa-topeka.org | ||||||||||||||
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Topeka Regional Airport (IATA: FOE, ICAO: KFOE, FAA LID: FOE), formerly known as Forbes Field, is a joint civil-military public airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority in Shawnee County, Kansas, seven miles south of downtown Topeka,[1] the capital city of Kansas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation airport.[2]
Topeka Regional Airport is used by the University of Kansas (KU) for charter flights for its athletic teams and by schools visiting the KU campus in Lawrence, which is 34 miles (55 km) east of the airport via the Kansas Turnpike. (Kansas City International Airport is 51 miles (82 km) from KU.) The airport had scheduled airline service by multiple carriers until 2014.
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 11,573 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2019.[3]