James Clements Municipal
3CM · Bay City, Michigan · Bay County · map
James Clements Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Bay City, 3 miles south of Bay City, Michigan, 585 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,798 feet of asphalt. It has 3 water landing areas. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 44 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 14,010 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3CM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Bay City
- Elevation
- 585 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 5
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,798 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09W/27W | 3,500 × 500 ft | Water, excellent | |
| 18W/36W | 3,500 × 500 ft | Water, excellent | |
| 13W/31W | 2,600 × 400 ft | Water, excellent | |
| 05/23 | 2,599 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, brush 2 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, gnd 8 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 05: threshold displaced 226 ft
- Runway 23: threshold displaced 159 ft, road 19 ft high 231 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.95 | |
| Freeland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.7 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 14,010, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Bay City from the FAA register
51 aircraft are registered to owners in Bay City, Michigan: 40 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 2 helicopters, 2 business jets, 1 turboprop. 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 Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 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
- Not in compliance with far 157; spb estabd bfr 1959.
- Occasional seaplane, agricultural, aerobatic, and ultralight act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate PAPI runway 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 and 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- +4 feet dike, 85 feet dist.
- +15 feet brush, 0 feet dist, 250 feet L.
- Approach ratio 20:1 at dthr.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds 45 degrees slp.
- Approach ratio 20:1 at dthr.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds 45 degrees slp.
- Ship buoys in river channel.
- Deer, large birds, and bald eagle act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 05 and 36 occasional +100 feet ships xng approach surfaces durg nav seasons 600-800 feet from threshold.
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.