Venango Regional Airport
Venango Regional Airport Chess Lamberton Field | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Venango County | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Franklin, Pennsylvania Oil City, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Venango County, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,540 ft / 469 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°22′40″N 079°51′37″W / 41.37778°N 79.86028°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | FlyFranklin.org | ||||||||||||||
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FKL Location of airport in Pennsylvania FKL FKL (the United States) | |||||||||||||||
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| Source: Federal Aviation Administration | |||||||||||||||
Venango Regional Airport (IATA: FKL, ICAO: KFKL, FAA LID: FKL), also known as Chess Lamberton Field, is a public airport in western Pennsylvania, 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Franklin and about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Oil City. Both cities are in Venango County, which operates the airport. The airport had limited airline service, which was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until October 2019.
Per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 681 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,583 enplanements in 2009, and 1,380 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).