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Hastings Municipal Airport is a city-owned general aviation field two miles northwest of Hastings, Nebraska, in Adams County. It offers two paved, lit runways and straightforward VFR access for pilots crossing the central Plains, with a hangar on the National Register of Historic Places recalling its decades of scheduled airline service.
Hastings Municipal Airport (KHSI) is a publicly owned general aviation airport serving Hastings, Nebraska, and is operated by the City of Hastings. It is a modest but well-equipped field for a sim pilot to use as a fuel stop or training base on cross-country flights through the Great Plains, with two lit, paved runways and a resident FBO. The airport's Hangar No. 1 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, giving the field a tangible link to its mid-twentieth-century airline days.
The airport lies about two miles northwest of downtown Hastings, on the northwest corner of the city, within Adams County, Nebraska, on a 504-acre site. There is no local air traffic control tower; pilots operating in the vicinity work with Minneapolis Center on 119.4 MHz, with a Columbus radio outlet available on 108.8 MHz for en route communications.
Hastings Municipal has two paved, lit runway surfaces. Runway 14/32 is a hard-surfaced runway with a declared length of 6,448 ft when used as runway 14 and 5,494 ft when used as runway 32. Runway 04/22 is a hard-surfaced runway of 4,494 ft in both directions. The field has no instrument landing system. Field elevation is 1,946 ft, at coordinates 40.6053, -98.4279.
Hastings Municipal has no control tower; traffic is coordinated on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. An ASOS automated weather observation is available on 120.525 MHz. Pilots transiting the area can reach Minneapolis Center on 119.4 MHz, with a Columbus radio outlet on 108.8 MHz.
The airport sits on the northwest edge of Hastings, roughly two miles from the town centre, making the built-up area of Hastings itself the primary visual reference for locating the field from the air. The airport property covers 504 acres, giving the runway complex a distinctive footprint against the surrounding farmland.
The current Hastings Municipal Airport was constructed as a permanent airfield in 1930. It went on to host scheduled airline service, beginning with Mid-West Airlines Cessna 190 flights in 1950-51, followed by Frontier Airlines Douglas DC-3s from 1959; Frontier's Convair 580s were the last scheduled airliners to serve the field, departing in 1979. Hangar No. 1 at the airport is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reflecting this early aviation heritage.
Hastings Municipal remains an active general aviation airport, with 22,700 aircraft operations recorded in the year ending April 27, 2022, an average of 62 per day, of which 97 percent were general aviation, 3 percent air taxi, and less than 1 percent military. Twenty-nine aircraft were then based at the field, comprising 25 single-engine and 4 multi-engine types. A fixed base operator, Hastings Air, is located on the airfield, and the Hastings Airport Association acts as an advocacy group for the airport on behalf of its stakeholders.
