Plum Island Airport
2B2 · Newburyport, Massachusetts · Essex County · map
Plum Island Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southeast of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 11 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 14/32, is 2,300 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 2B2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 11 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to September, every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; October to March, IREG, irregular hours
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 2,300 × 100 ft | Grass | |
| 10/28 | 2,105 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 14: trees 14 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 32: trees 66 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 10: trees 100 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 28: threshold displaced 300 ft, fence 8 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.4 |
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Aircraft registered in Newburyport from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Newburyport, Massachusetts: 18 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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 Massachusetts.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 17 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
- No tgls allowed.
- Hne, historic new england inc.
- 4 feet unlit fence crosses runway. Vehicle and equip in the vicinity of runway.
- Wildlife in the vicinity 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.