Mexico Farms Airport
1W3 · Cumberland, Maryland · Allegany County · map
Mexico Farms Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles south of Cumberland, Maryland, 607 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,120 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1W3
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 607 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, unattndd
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,120 × 75 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 09: right-hand traffic pattern, crops 10 ft high 67 ft from the end
- Runway 27: threshold displaced 326 ft, trees 68 ft high 664 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · 122.8 shared with Cumberland municipal 1/2 MI due north. |
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Aircraft registered in Cumberland from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Cumberland, Maryland: 11 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 glider. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Maryland.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 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
- Established prior 1959.
- Ultralight aircraft and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 122.8 shared with Cumberland municipal 1/2 MI due north.
- Jill johnson.
- Displaced threshold marked with cones on both sides.
- Approach slope 20:1 to displaced threshold at centerline.
- May be soft.
- Rising trrn 4500 feet west of airport.
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.