Colby Municipal Airport

Colby Municipal Airport Shalz Field
IATA: CBK ICAO: KCBK FAA LID: CBK
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Colby
Serves	Colby, Kansas
Elevation  AMSL	3,187 ft / 971 m
Coordinates	39°25′39″N101°02′48″W / 39.42750°N 101.04667°W / 39.42750; -101.04667
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 17/35 5,110 1,558 Concrete 12/30 2,660 811 Turf 4/22 2,600 792 Turf
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2021) 5,550 Based aircraft (2022) 24
Sources: airport web page [1] and FAA [2]

Colby Municipal Airport or Shalz Field( IATA : CBK, ICAO : KCBK, FAA LID : CBK) is on Kansas Highway 25, two miles (3 km) north of Colby, in Thomas County, Kansas. ^{[1] [2]}

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

Facilities

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

In the year ending September 18, 2021 the airport had 5,550 aircraft operations, an average of 15 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. In April 2022, there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 1 helicopter. ^[2]

History

The Colby airport had commuter airline service in the late 1960s/early 1970s by Air Midwest with nonstop flights to Denver as well as flights to Wichita making stops in Great Bend and Hutchison, Kansas. Air Midwest used Cessna 402 aircraft. ^[5]

See also

• List of airports in Kansas

References

1. Colby Municipal Airport, Shalz Field at City of Colby web site
2. FAA Airport Form 5010 for CBK PDF , effective April 21, 2022
3. "Shaltz Field (CBK)" (PDF). page from Kansas DOT Airport Directory
4. "Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 45, March 8, 2004" (PDF).. "Shalz Field was incorrectly spelled as Shaltz Field".
5. Official Airline Guide, November 15, 1969 edition

External links

• FAA Terminal Procedures for CBK , effective February 20, 2025
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for CBK
  • AirNav airport information for CBK
  • ASN accident history for CBK
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for CBK