Beech Hill Airport
04ME · Mercer, Maine · Somerset County · map
Beech Hill Airport is a private airport, 2 miles southeast of Mercer, Maine, 625 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 1,950 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 04ME
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 625 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Montreal sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 18W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 1,950 × 120 ft | Grass |
- Runway 15: trees 20 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 33: trees on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangars
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Waterville Regional (12 nm southeast), Augusta State Airport (21 nm south), Pittsfield Municipal (23 nm east), Stephen A Bean Municipal (38 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Central Maine/Norridgewock Airport (3 nm north), Waterville Regional (12 nm southeast), Augusta State Airport (21 nm south), Pittsfield Municipal (23 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Maine · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Operations in VFR conditions, right traffic pattern for runway 15.
- Skis only when snow covered.
- Airport is atndd all 12 months. Only runway 15/33 is closed apr and may.
- Closed apr and may durg spring thaw.
- Low altitude turbulence durg high winds.
- P-LINE west. Along road (not an approach obs).
- Runway 15/33 soft when wet.
- Trucks crossing approach end of runway 33 on access road.
- Ang aircraft and helicopter activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mercer from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Mercer, Maine: 3 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Maine.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- American Classic Flying Club LLC 2 aircraft · Waterville, 14 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Mercer 3 aircraft · 3 piston singles
- American Classic Flying Club LLC 2 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Maine 529 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Maine 66 landing places
- Maine 1,426 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/04ME.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 28, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.