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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Delta County (8 nm south), Marquette Sawyer Regional (32 nm north), Schoolcraft County (40 nm east), Ford Airport (42 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Delta County (8 nm south), Marquette Sawyer Regional (32 nm north), Schoolcraft County (40 nm east), Ford Airport (42 nm west).
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 Michigan · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Michigan.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Bay de Noc Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Escanaba, 10 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Gladstone 12 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 1 business jets
- Classic Aircraft Restoration LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Bay de Noc Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Michigan 2,103 since 1982 · 226 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 5 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Michigan 220 landing places
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/43MI.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.