Colby Municipal Airport

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Colby Municipal Airport Shalz Field
IATA: CBK – ICAO: KCBK – FAA: CBK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Colby
Serves		Colby, Kansas
Elevation AMSL		3,187 ft / 971 m
Coordinates		39°25′39″N 101°02′48″W / 39.4275, -101.04667
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	5,110	1,558	Concrete
12/30	2,660	811	Turf
4/22	2,600	792	Turf
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft operations			6,506
Based aircraft			19
Sources: airport web page^[1] and FAA^[2]

Colby Municipal Airport or Shalz Field (IATA: CBK, ICAO: KCBK, FAA LID: CBK) is a city-owned, public-use airport located on Kansas Highway 25, two miles (3 km) north of the city of Colby, in Thomas County, Kansas, United States.^[1]^[2]

The airport's page at the Kansas Department of Transportation Airport Directory lists the name as Shaltz Field^[3], but that is an incorrect spelling as per the Federal Register dated March 8, 2004.^[4]

[edit] Facilities and aircraft

Shalz Field covers an area of 473 acres (191 ha) which contains one concrete paved runway, 17/35, measuring 5,110 x 75 ft. (1,558 x 23 m). It also has two turf runways: 12/30 measuring 2,660 x 90 ft. (811 x 27 m) and 4/22 measuring 2,600 x 80 ft. (792 x 24 m).^[2]

For the 12-month period ending July 10, 2007, the airport had 6,506 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day: 85% general aviation, 15% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 19 aircraft based at this airport: 90% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 5% ultralight.^[2]