John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport
IATA: ASX ICAO: KASX FAA LID: ASX
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City & County of Ashland
Serves	Ashland, Wisconsin
Time zone	CST (UTC−06:00)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC−05:00)
Elevation AMSL	827 ft / 252 m
Coordinates	46°32′55″N 090°55′08″W / 46.54861°N 90.91889°W / 46.54861; -90.91889
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 2/20 5,197 1,584 Asphalt 13/31 3,498 1,066 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2022) 10,525 Based aircraft (2024) 24
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport (IATA: ASX, ICAO: KASX, FAA LID: ASX) is a city and county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Ashland, a city in Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1] It is also known as JFK Memorial Airport.^[1]

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.^[2]

Facilities and aircraft

John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport covers an area of 511 acres (207 ha) at an elevation of 827 feet (252 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: the primary runway 2/20 is 5,197 by 100 feet (1,584 x 30 m) with approved LOC and GPS approaches and the crosswind runway 13/31 is 3,498 by 75 feet (1,066 x 23 m) with approved GPS approaches.^[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 23, 2022, the airport had 10,525 aircraft operations, an average of 29 per day: 95% general aviation and 5% air taxi. In March 2024, there were 24 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 2 multi-engine and 1 jet.^[1]