Festus Memorial Airport (ICAO: KFES, FAA LID: FES) is a privately owned, public-use airport situation located two nautical miles (4 km) south of the central business district of Festus, a city in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.[1]

Festus Memorial Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KFES FAA LID: FES
Summary
Airport type	Public use
Owner	Wings Portco, Inc.
Serves	Festus, Missouri
Elevation AMSL	433 ft / 132 m
Coordinates	38°11′42″N 090°23′08″W
Website	FestusAirport.net
Map
FES Location of airport in Missouri
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 2,202 671 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Aircraft operations 9,006 Based aircraft 25
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned FES by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA.[2][3]

Facilities and aircraft

Festus Memorial Airport sits on an area of 72 acres (29 ha) at an elevation of 433 feet (132 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 1/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,202 by 49 feet (671 x 15 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2019, the airport had 9,006 individual operations, an average of 25 per day: 99.9% general aviation and <0.1% military. At that time there were 25 aircraft based at this airport: 24 single-engine aircraft based at this airport, and one multi-engine aircraft.[1]

See also

• List of airports in Missouri

References

External links

• FestusAirport.net
• "Festus Memorial (FES)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2014-03-15. at Missouri DOT Airport Directory
• Aerial image as of March 1996 from USGS The National Map
• FAA Terminal Procedures for FES, effective June 16, 2022
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for FES
  • AirNav airport information for KFES
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KFES