Kulm Municipal Airport is a public use

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located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the

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of Kulm, a city in

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. It is owned by the Kulm Municipal Airport Authority.

Facilities and aircraft

The airport covers an area of at an

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of 1,959 feet (597 m) above

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. It has one

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

designated 12/30 with a

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surface measuring 2,800 by 120 feet (853 x 37 m).

Pruetz Municipal Airport (5K9)

Kulm Municipal Airport opened in 2009, replacing the former Pruetz Municipal Airport , which had a 2,900 by 110 ft (884 x 34 m) turf runway located south of Kulm at ..

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