Forbes Field Airport (FOE) Information

Where is Forbes Field Airport?
Forbes Field (IATA: FOE, ICAO: KFOE, FAA LID: FOE) is a joint civil-military public airport located six miles (10 km) south of the central business district of Topeka, a city in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States. It is owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 17,924 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2006, up from 7,530 enplanements in 2005. The airport has no scheduled commercial airline service at this time. Allegiant Air offered scheduled flights to Las Vegas, but discontinued service here on July 30, 2007.

Forbes Field covers an area of 2,854 acres (1,155 ha) which contains two concrete paved runways: 13/31 measuring 12,802 x 200 ft (3,902 x 61 m) and 3/21 measuring 7,000 x 150 ft (2,134 x 46 m). For the 12-month period ending October 31, 2007, the airport had 44,152 aircraft operations, an average of 120 per day: 58% military, 38% general aviation and 4% scheduled commercial.

Please note that there are no scheduled commercial flights from the FOE Forbes Field Airport.