Hutchinson Municipal Airport (Kansas)

Hutchinson Municipal Airport (IATA: HUT, ICAO: KHUT, FAA LID: HUT) is a city-owned public airport three miles east of Hutchinson, in Reno County, Kansas, United States.

[1] Hutchinson Municipal Airport covers 1,597 acres (646 ha) at an elevation of 1,543 feet (470 m) above mean sea level.

[1] In 2010 the airport had 40,850 aircraft operations, average 120 per day: 88% general aviation, 7% military and 5% air taxi, 33 aircraft were then based at this airport: 71% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 5% jet and 3% helicopter.

Hutchinson had been served by commercial airlines with direct flights to Denver, Kansas City, and Wichita from about 1944 through 1990.

Frontier Airlines from 1967 through 1970 using Convair 580s, and Air Midwest from 1970 through 1990 using Cessna 402s, Beechcraft 99s, and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner IIs.