Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport
Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport
Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (IATA: LBL, ICAO: KLBL, FAA LID: LBL) is two miles west of Liberal, in Seward County, Kansas. It is used for general aviation and is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Formerly Liberal Municipal Airport, it hosts the Mid-America Air Museum. The Federal Aviation Administration says this airport had 7,911 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 6,255 in 2009 and 7,156 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport.
Location
37.044°N, 100.960°O · 879 m s. n. m. (2.885 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
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 facility was Liberal Army Airfield and was used for United States Army Air Forces Second Air Force B-24 Liberator training from 1943 to 1945. New multi-engine graduates were shipped to Liberal to transition to the Liberator, then sent to 1st Phase bases to join a crew for combat training.
Before April 1944, Liberal was home to a Twin Engine Flying Training Group with four squadrons (60, 63, 1029, 1030), the 527th Base Hq & Air Base Sq, 324th Sub Depot, 444th (later 744th) AAF Band, and 396th Aviation Sq.
These units later merged into the 2425th AAF Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine).
Airline flights (on Central Airlines DC-3s) began in 1956; successor Frontier Airlines left in 1981.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 11 aircraft documented between 2020 and 2024.
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
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (LBL). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LBL
MLA
“Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (LBL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LBL. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (LBL).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LBL.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (LBL). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LBL (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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