Sterling Airport
3B3 · Sterling, Massachusetts · Worcester County · map
Sterling Airport is a public-use airport owned by Monadnock Realty CORP, 2 miles southwest of Sterling, Massachusetts, 459 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 3,086 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3B3
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Monadnock Realty CORP
- Elevation
- 459 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Thursday to Sunday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1948
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,086 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 16: threshold displaced 150 ft, trees 50 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 34: threshold displaced 500 ft, tree 100 ft high 600 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Sterling from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Sterling, Massachusetts: 9 piston singles, 9 gliders, 5 balloons. 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 Massachusetts.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 1 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 to 1959.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 and rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Intensive glider activate on weekends.
- NON-STD low-intensity runway lights; first 190 feet runway 16 unlighted; first 240 feet runway 34 unlighted.
- Approach ratio 11:1 to displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 6:1 to displaced threshold.
- Glider operations in the vicinity of airport sunrise to sunset daily.
- Wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Gliders only R traffic runway 16.
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.