Kirksville Regional Airport (IATA: IRK, ICAO: KIRK, FAA LID: IRK) is a city owned, public use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southeast of the central business district of Kirksville, a city in Benton Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States. The airport is situated in Pettis Township, near the village of Millard. It is served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 684 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 926 enplanements in 2009, and 2,127 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).
Cape Air is the current air service provider, with an average of 900 to 1,000 passengers per month. Three flights per day are offered to Lambert-St. Louis airport, with three return flights to Kirksville daily as well.
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