West Gladstone Airport
43MI · Gladstone, Michigan · Delta County · map
West Gladstone Airport is a private airport, 3 miles west of Gladstone, Michigan, 729 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,977 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 43MI
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 729 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1976
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,977 × 68 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 18: trees on the approach
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 397 ft, trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Gladstone from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Gladstone, Michigan: 11 piston singles, 1 business jet. 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Trees and brush in primary surface both sides.
- Drainage culvert with 3 feet dropoff midfield.
- 2 feet yellow cones.
- 2 feet yellow cones.
- Approach ratio 20:1 based on straight out ovr 15 feet trees, 300 feet dist.
- Approach ratio 26:1 to dthr based on straight out.
- Also +30 feet trees, 100 feet dist, 120 feet L.
- Also +66 feet trees, 120 feet dist, 75 feet R; +30 feet trees, 55 feet dist, 65 feet L.
- Soft when wet, some bare spots.
- Deer 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.