Riverside Airport (Kansas)

For other uses, see Riverside Airport (disambiguation).

Riverside Airport (FAA LID: K32) was a privately owned, public use airport in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.^[1] It was located on the east side of the intersection of Hoover Rd. and 33rd Street North in northwest Wichita.^[1][2]

Riverside Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: K32
Summary
Airport type	Public use (abandoned)
Owner	Cornejo & Sons Fly High, Inc.
Serves	Wichita, Kansas
Elevation AMSL	1,335 ft / 407 m
Coordinates	37°44′46″N 097°24′22″W
Map
K32 Location of airport in Kansas
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 16/34 3,200 975 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Aircraft operations 14,000 Based aircraft 29
Source: Federal Aviation Administration,[1] Paul Freeman[2]

In late February 2014, the property was sold to Cornejo & Sons Construction, which closed the facility and plans to mine the sand underneath it.^[3]

Facilities and aircraft

Riverside Airport covered an area of 220 acres (89 ha) at an elevation of 1,335 feet (407 m) above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,200 by 40 feet (975 x 12 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending June 8, 2012, the airport had 14,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day. At that time there were 29 aircraft based at this airport: 25 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, and 1 ultralight.^[1]

Nearby airports

Other airports in Wichita

• Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
• Colonel James Jabara Airport
• Beech Factory Airport
• Cessna Aircraft Field
• McConnell Air Force Base
• Westport Airport

Other airports in metro

• Augusta Municipal Airport
• Lloyd Stearman Field (Benton)

Other airports in region

• List of airports in Kansas
• List of airports in Oklahoma