Wells Airport
3NE3 · Holdrege, Nebraska · Phelps County · map
Wells Airport is a private airport, 5 miles northeast of Holdrege, Nebraska, 2,275 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 2,500 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3NE3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,275 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/S | 2,500 × 100 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Brewster Field (3 nm south), Kearney Regional (20 nm northeast), Jim Kelly Field (27 nm northwest), Cozad Municipal (38 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Brewster Field (3 nm south), Pioneer Village Field (17 nm east), Kearney Regional (20 nm northeast), Alma Municipal (23 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Nebraska · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Durg summer months pivot will an X south side of runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Holdrege from the FAA register
59 aircraft are registered to owners in Holdrege, Nebraska: 24 piston singles, 22 turboprops, 6 drones, 5 business jets, 1 piston twin. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Nebraska.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Holdrege 59 aircraft · 24 piston singles, 22 turboprops, 6 drones
- Wells Flying Services LLC 11 aircraft in town
- Westerlin-Harrington Flying Service INC 6 aircraft in town
- Westerlin Harrington Flying Service INC 6 aircraft in town
- Pioneer Agviation 2 LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Nebraska 763 since 1982 · 108 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Nebraska 78 landing places
- Nebraska 2,948 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3NE3.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.