Kearney Regional Airport (IATA: EAR, ICAO: KEAR, FAA LID: EAR) is a city owned, public use airport located located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northeast of the central business district of Kearney, a city in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. Formerly known as Kearney Municipal Airport, it is served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,956 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 10,113 enplanements in 2009, and 9,530 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (over 10,000), but is non-primary commercial service based on enplanements in 2010.
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