Schiffer Acres Airport
3S5 · St Johns, Michigan · Clinton County · map
Schiffer Acres Airport is a public-use airport, 6 miles ene of St Johns, Michigan, 741 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,777 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3S5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 741 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1982
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,777 × 120 ft | Grass, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 26: threshold displaced 1,383 ft, trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in St Johns from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list St Johns, MI as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Low-intensity runway lights not for public use.
- Runway defined by mowing.
- Runway defined by mowing; dthr marked with 3 yellow cones each side of runway.
- Approach ratio 8:1 ovr +47 feet tree, 381 feet dist, 80 feet L; 20:1 to dthr.
- Also +32 feet power line, 510 feet dist, 25 feet L.
- Deer, birds, and wildlife on and 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.