Howard Nixon Memorial
50G · Chesaning, Michigan · Saginaw County · map
Howard Nixon Memorial is a public-use airport owned by the Village of Chesaning, 1 mile west of Chesaning, Michigan, 641 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 2,800 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 50G
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Village of Chesaning
- Elevation
- 641 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1946
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,800 × 150 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
| 18/36 | 2,582 × 150 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 09: tree 34 ft high 397 ft from the end
- Runway 27: threshold displaced 800 ft, road on the approach
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 400 ft, tree 75 ft high 411 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 796 ft, tree 33 ft high 154 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Chesaning from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Chesaning, Michigan: 11 piston singles. 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, 2 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
- No winter snow removal.
- Activate non-standard runway end identifier lights runway 09, 27, 18, and 36; non-standard low-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 and 18/36 - 5 clicks the common traffic frequency.
- Troy feltman, village administrator.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to color.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to color.
- Non-standard runway end identifier lights due to lctn.
- Non-standard runway end identifier lights due to lctn.
- Non-standard runway end identifier lights due to lctn.
- Non-standard runway end identifier lights due to lctn.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
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.