FAA Central Region

About FAA Central

The Central Region covers the agricultural heartland from the Missouri River west to the Nebraska panhandle. Its airport portfolio is dominated by mid-size regional airports that link rural counties into the national hub-and-spoke network. The FAA assigns each airport in the United States to one of nine regions; this region handles airport certification, safety inspections, federal-grant coordination, and overall coordination with the air-traffic-control facilities physically inside its territory.

For travelers, the most useful thing to know about a region is which of its airports is the closest large_airport for the trip you are planning, and which secondary or regional airports could spare you a longer drive to the major airport. The featured airports below cover the largest gateways inside the Central Region, and the state list below that gives you a way to drill into every public-use airport the region covers.

States & territories in the Central region

Featured airports inside the Central region

Region totals