Karl Stefan Memorial Airport

Karl Stefan Memorial Airport (KOFK) is a medium airport in Norfolk, NE. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KOFK or IATA code OFK. It sits in North America.

Karl Stefan Memorial Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,806-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 5,806 ft (1,770 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.

Karl Stefan Memorial Airport lies at 1,573 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 27 departing and 97 arriving private-jet legs at KOFK across the next six months of operator inventory. 4 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KOFK are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Norfolk Regional Airport is four miles southwest of Norfolk, in Madison County, Nebraska. The airport is named for Karl Stefan, a local newspaper editor and radio announcer who served several terms in the United States Congress. Until March 2011 it was known as Karl Stefan Memorial Airport. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. Federal Aviation Administration records say Norfolk had 1,709 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2001, 1,139 enplanments in 2002, 1,254 in 2003, and 672 in 2004.