Kearney Regional Airport

Kearney Regional Airport (KEAR) is a medium airport in Kearney, NE. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KEAR or IATA code EAR. It sits in North America.

Kearney Regional Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 7,094 ft (2,162 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Kearney Regional Airport lies at 2,131 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 9 departing and 8 arriving private-jet legs at KEAR across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KEAR 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.

Kearney Regional Airport is an airport five miles northeast of Kearney in Buffalo County, Nebraska.