Garden City Regional Airport
Garden City Regional Airport
Garden City Regional Airport (IATA: GCK, ICAO: KGCK, FAA LID: GCK) is nine miles southeast of Garden City, in Finney County, Kansas, United States. It sees one scheduled airline, subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program at a cost of $5,897,640 (per year). The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.
Location
37.928°N, 100.724°O · 881 m s. n. m. (2.891 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 5 Official publication
Tower
Ground
Approach
UNICOM
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
During World War II the United States Army Air Forces used Garden City Airport as a training airfield by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Gulf Coast Training Center. The facility was called Garden City Army Airfield.
The main Garden City Army Airfield and its auxiliaries closed in November 1945 and were declared excess by the military on 18 May 1947. Civil authorities developed the main airfield into Garden City Regional Airport.
Garden City Regional Airport's status as former Garden City AAF made it important during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When orders were dispatched to ground all domestic flights, three large jets were told to land at GCRA, the closest airport large enough for them. The airport had no stairs for large airliners and the passengers had to be evacuated by Garden City Fire Department ladder trucks.
In December 2011 the EAS program awarded American Eagle Airlines two daily non-stop flights to Dallas-Fort Worth. Flights began on April 3, 2012 with 44-seat and 50-seat Embraer ERJ family regional jets. American Eagle service was upgraded on November 30, 2022 with 65-seat Bombardier CRJ700 series regional jets operated by SkyWest Airlines. On February 15, 2024, the American Eagle service began operating with 65-seat Embraer 170 regional jets operated by Envoy Air.
On June 26, 2024 a new terminal building was opened replacing the former facility built in 1959. The new terminal has greatly expanded space and a passenger loading bridge to accommodate the current 65-seat jet aircraft now serving the airport.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 59 aircraft documented between 2016 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · view original
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Garden City Regional Airport (GCK). Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GCK
MLA
“Garden City Regional Airport (GCK).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/GCK. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
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Harvard
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BibTeX
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