Muskegon County Airport
Muskegon County Airport
Muskegon County Airport (IATA: MKG, ICAO: KMKG, FAA LID: MKG) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Norton Shores, Michigan. The airport is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Muskegon, Michigan. It is mostly used for general aviation but also offers scheduled passenger service by Denver Air Connection flying primarily Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets to Chicago-O'Hare, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 30,051 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 15,886 in 2009, and 13,088 in 2010. 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 non-hub primary commercial service facility.
Location
43.169°N, 86.238°O · 192 m s. n. m. (629 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 7 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
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
In 1927, the Greater Muskegon Chamber of Commerce began a campaign to establish the Muskegon County Airport. The Muskegon County Board of Commissioners approved the construction of the airport's first terminal in 1931. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) project cost the county $12,000. Capital Airlines was serving Muskegon by 1949 with nonstop Douglas DC-3 flights to Chicago, Milwaukee and Grand Rapids, Michigan, with direct, no-change-of-plane DC-3 service to Detroit, Lansing and Flint, Michigan. By the spring of 1961, Capital was serving the airport with Vickers Viscount turboprop aircraft with nonstop and direct one stop flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport as well as nonstop flights to Milwaukee with direct, no change of plane Viscount flights from both New York Newark Airport and Washington, D.C. National Airport via Detroit. At this same time, Capital was also operating Douglas DC-4 propliner service on an eastbound routing of Chicago O'Hare - Muskegon - Lansing - Detroit - Cleveland - Pittsburgh - Baltimore - Washington D.C. National Airport and a westbound routing of Washington D.C National Airport - Baltimore - Pittsburgh - Cleveland - Detroit - Grand Rapids - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare. North Central Airlines was serving Muskegon by 1962 with Douglas DC-3 aircraft operated on nonstop flights to Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, in addition to direct, no change plane flights to Detroit Willow Run Airport via stops in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Lansing. The airport even had international service of a sort at this time as North Central was operating a daily southbound DC-3 flight from Port Arthur, Ontario/Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) in Canada with stops being made in Houghton, Michigan, Iron Mountain, Michigan, and Green Bay en route to Muskegon with this flight then continuing on to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit. Capital Airlines was then acquired and merged into United Airlines which in 1963 was continuing to serve Muskegon. According to the August 1963 United system timetable, the airline was serving the airport with Vickers Viscount turboprops as well as Douglas DC-6B prop aircraft with Viscount service including a westbound flight operating a routing of Washington D.C. National Airport - Detroit Willow Run Airport - Lansing - Grand Rapids - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare Airport and an eastbound Viscount flight operating a routing of Chicago O'Hare - Muskegon - Saginaw, MI - Flint - Detroit Willow Run Airport - Cleveland - Pittsburgh. United Douglas DC-6B service at this time in 1963 included a westbound flight operating a routing of Detroit Willow Run - Flint - Saginaw - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare - Moline, IL - Cedar Rapids - Des Moines - Omaha and an eastbound flight operating a routing of Cedar Rapids - Chicago O'Hare - Muskegon - Saginaw - Flint - Detroit Willow Run - Akron, OH - Youngstown, OH - Pittsburgh. By 1969, United Airlines was operating all of its flights into Muskegon with Boeing 737-200 jets with three daily nonstops to Chicago O'Hare with one of these flights providing direct, no change of plane service to Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, with another 737 flight operating direct one stop service from Cleveland via Flint. Also in 1969, North Central Airlines was operating eight daily Convair 580 turboprop flights from the airport with nonstop service to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Milwaukee as well as direct one stop service to Chicago O'Hare and also direct one or two stop service to Detroit. According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), United was continuing to serve the airport in 1975 with three daily flights operated with Boeing 737-200 jets with one service operating an eastbound routing of Chicago O'Hare Airport - Muskegon - Flint, MI - Cleveland - Baltimore with another service operating a westbound routing of Boston - Cleveland - Flint - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare Airport with a third flight operating an additional nonstop service to Chicago O'Hare.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 16 aircraft documented between 2015 and 2022.
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: Nenyedi · Attribution · 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). Muskegon County Airport (MKG). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MKG
MLA
“Muskegon County Airport (MKG).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MKG. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Muskegon County Airport (MKG).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MKG.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Muskegon County Airport (MKG). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MKG (Accessed: 24 October 2026).
BibTeX
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