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″N 101°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]