El Dorado/Captain Jack Thomas Memorial Airport

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El Dorado/Captain Jack Thomas Memorial Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of El Dorado
OperatorLarry Arnold
LocationEl Dorado, Kansas
Elevation AMSL1,378 ft / 420 m
Coordinates37°46′27″N 096°49′03″W / 37.77417°N 96.81750°W / 37.77417; -96.81750
Websitewww.eldoks.com/El-Dorado-Municipal-Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
4/22 4,204 1,281 Asphalt
15/33 4,200 1,280 Concrete
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2017)13,225
Based aircraft (2018)42

El Dorado/Captain Jack Thomas Memorial Airport (IATA: EDK, ICAO: KEQA, FAA LID: EQA) is a general aviation public use airport located three miles (5 km) southeast of the central business district of El Dorado, in Butler County, Kansas, United States. This airport is publicly owned by the City of El Dorado.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned EQA by the FAA and EDK by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KEQA. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.