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Kirksville Regional Airport supports general aviation with fuel, pilot facilities, maintenance/avionics access and other FBO services. Pilots must use current FAA charts, NOTAMs and weather rather than treating this article as an operational briefing.
Kirksville Regional Airport is about four miles south of the city and offers free parking, a small terminal and scheduled commercial service. Check the airline's live booking and flight-status pages before travel because routes and times can change.
Air Missouri operated from Kirksville in the late 1970s and grew from the earlier Horizon Airways operation, but surviving sources conflict over the founder’s first name and the exact year Horizon began.
Kirksville aviation history runs from a 1924 north-side grass strip to the current airport site established in 1930, wartime training in the 1940s and later regional commercial service.
Parking at Kirksville Regional Airport is currently free. Rental-car, taxi and shuttle options exist, but small-market transportation availability changes, so passengers should arrange ground transportation before travel.
The City traces Kirksville’s first established airfield to a small grass strip north of town in 1924 owned by Roy B. “Cap” Dodson.