Butler Memorial Airport

Butler Memorial Airport
Butler Memorial Airport
	IATA: BUM; ICAO: KBUM; FAA LID: BUM;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Butler, Missouri, US
Elevation AMSL	892 ft (272 m)
Coordinates	38°17′20″N 94°20′31″W / 38.289°N 94.342°W
	Interactive map of Butler Memorial Airport
Runways
	Sources: FAA

Butler Memorial Airport (IATA: BUM, ICAO: KBUM, FAA LID: BUM) is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) north of the central business district of Butler, the county seat of Bates County, Missouri, United States.^[1] It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Accidents

On June 14, 2026: 2026 Butler PAC P-750 crash, a PAC P-750 XSTOL skydiving aircraft crashed following takeoff from Butler Memorial Airport. The aircraft was a private plane operated by Skydive Kansas City. The plane crashed near a highway. The accident follows the September 1995 crash of a Beechcraft Queen Air near West Point, Virginia, as one of the second deadliest skydiving plane crash in United States history.^[3]^[4]

1 2 "FAA Airport Form 5010 for BUM – BUTLER MEML" (PDF). FAA. Retrieved June 11, 2026.
↑ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF, 2.03 MB) on September 27, 2012.
↑ Von Quednow, Cindy (June 14, 2026). "12 killed after Missouri plane crashes in one of the deadliest US skydiving incidents in decades, officials say". CNN. Archived from the original on June 15, 2026.
↑ "U.S. Skydiving Suffers Most Devastating Loss Since 1995". United States Parachute Association. June 24, 2019. Archived from the original on June 15, 2026.