Watervliet Municipal
40C · Watervliet, Michigan · Berrien County · map
Watervliet Municipal is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Watervliet, Michigan, 656 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 02/20, is 2,600 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 40C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 656 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1950
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 2,600 × 200 ft | Grass, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 1,540 × 200 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 02: threshold displaced 600 ft, trees 70 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 20: threshold displaced 800 ft, trees 70 ft high 320 ft from the end
- Runway 07: trees 69 ft high 345 ft from the end
- Runway 25: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Watervliet from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Watervliet, Michigan: 18 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 5 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
- Estabd bfr 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- Ropes not provided.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Defined by mowing.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Defined by mowing.
- Approach ratio 9:1 to dthr ovr 70 feet trees, 650 feet dist, 125 feet R.
- Approach ratio 4:1 to dthr ovr 98 feet trees, 392 feet dist, 165 feet L.
- Soft when wet and durg spring due to poor drainage.
- Soft when wet and durg spring due to poor drainage.
- Drone (UAS), ultralight, and pwrd prcht act.
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.