Ray Community Airport
57D · Ray, Michigan · Macomb County · map
Ray Community Airport is a public-use airport owned by Macomb Airways, INC, 2 miles southeast of Ray, Michigan, 632 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 2,495 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 57D
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Macomb Airways, INC
- Elevation
- 632 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,495 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 01/19 | 2,202 × 123 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 210 ft, tree 43 ft high 757 ft from the end
- Runway 01: tree 27 ft high 439 ft from the end
- Runway 19: threshold displaced 140 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.6 | |
| Algonac and center (remote transmitter) High | 126.525 |
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Aircraft registered in Ray from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Ray, Michigan: 7 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 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
- Estabd bfr 1959.
- Activate abandoned - the common traffic frequency.
- Deer and large birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate PAPI runway 10 and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- Available H24 self service via credit card machine in terminal building.
- Road, 65 feet dist.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- +8 feet seasonal crops, 226 feet dist.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
- Ultralight operations.
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.