Elk City Regional Business Airport frequencies

Elk City Regional Business Airport (ELK · KELK) in Elk City, OK has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 122.8. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

All of Elk City Regional Business Airport — runways, frequencies, charts and live weather

Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 118.225
An automated weather station reading the field conditions aloud — wind, visibility, ceiling, temperature and altimeter. It replaces ATIS at a field with no controller to record one. Get the altimeter setting before you descend below the transition altitude.

Taxi & takeoff

CTAF 122.8
The common frequency pilots use to announce themselves to each other at a field with no operating control tower. Nobody is controlling traffic — you are self announcing. Report your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern, and listen well before you transmit.
UNICOM 122.8
A ground station run by the FBO rather than the FAA, for fuel, parking and airport services. Use it for services. Where the field has no separate CTAF, the same frequency doubles as the advisory frequency.

Also

Flight service 128.4 (LOW)
Flight Service handles briefings, flight plans and en route advisories, reached here through a remote outlet. Open and close VFR flight plans, and get updated weather in the air. 1-800-WX-BRIEF reaches the same specialists from the ground.

What to say on 122.8

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KELK, so every call is you telling other aircraft where you are. Open and close with the field name so a pilot tuned to a shared frequency knows which airport you mean — 122.8 is not unique to Elk City Regional Business Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Elk City Business traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 17, Elk City Business.
  • Entering the pattern Elk City Business traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 17, Elk City Business.
  • Before taking the runway Elk City Business traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 17, Elk City Business.

Pattern direction is not always left here — check the KELK traffic pattern before you announce a leg. The Chart Supplement is authoritative if KELK publishes a call name that differs from the airport's. Full guidance →

By procedure & sector (1 more)
269.375CLINTON-SHERMAN RCAG (LOW)
Every KELK frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS118.225
CTAF122.8
UNICOM122.8
Flight service128.4 (LOW)

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KELK?

Elk City Regional Business Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 122.8 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KELK?

ASOS/AWOS at Elk City Regional Business Airport is 118.225. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.