Bresett'S Mountainside Airport
17ME · Van Buren, Maine · Aroostook County · map
Bresett'S Mountainside Airport is a private airport, 4 miles northwest of Van Buren, Maine, 590 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 1,600 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 17ME
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 590 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Halifax sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2007
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 1,600 × 80 ft | Grass |
- Runway 13: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 50 ft high 800 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 50 ft high 800 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Northern Aroostook Regional (14 nm west), Presque Isle International (31 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Long Lake Seaplane Base (10 nm west), Northern Aroostook Regional (14 nm west), Caribou Municipal (20 nm south), Presque Isle International (31 nm south).
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
- Provided vft operations, and establish a NON-STD traffic pattern runway 13.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Van Buren from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Van Buren, Maine: 2 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.
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 Van Buren 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- 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 1,427 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/17ME.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 30, 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.