Franconia Airport
1B5 · Franconia, New Hampshire · Grafton County · map
Franconia Airport is a public-use airport owned by Franconia Soaring Foundation, INC, 2 miles south of Franconia, New Hampshire, 975 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,300 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1B5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Franconia Soaring Foundation, INC
- Elevation
- 975 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to October, weekends, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Montreal sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,300 × 150 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: trees 61 ft high 226 ft from the end
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 56 ft high 504 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Franconia from the FAA register
18 aircraft are registered to owners in Franconia, New Hampshire: 11 gliders, 6 piston singles, 1 helicopter. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in New Hampshire.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR operations only.
- Runway soft in spring.
- Fst 200 feet of runway 18 rough.
- L pattern for gliders.
- Avoid flying ovr resl area at der 18 durg both takeoff and landing; avoid low altitude and/or high pwr settings in this area.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Glider operations in the vicinity of airport.
- 4 feet tall fence 92 feet from runway 36 L to R of centerline.
- Rental bicycles available at Franconia inn.
- Takeoffs and landings not advised from dusk to 0900 for voluntary noise batement.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 5, 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.