Forbes Field (airport)

Forbes Field (airport)

Forbes Field (IATA: FOE, ICAO: KFOE, FAA LID: FOE) is a public use airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority and located in Shawnee County, Kansas, six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) south of the central business district of Topeka, the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility. It has no scheduled commercial airline service at this time. Allegiant Air offered scheduled flights to Las Vegas, but discontinued service here on July 30, 2007.

Forbes Field 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 Forbes Field via the Kansas Turnpike. By comparison, Kansas City International Airport is 51 miles (82 km) from KU.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 14,922 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 11,985 enplanements in 2009, and 15,115 in 2010.