Lancaster Municipal
73C · Lancaster, Wisconsin · Grant County · map
Lancaster Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lancaster, 4 miles south of Lancaster, Wisconsin, 1,016 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 8 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 8,400 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 73C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lancaster
- Elevation
- 1,016 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,300 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: road 10 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 36: road 15 ft high 325 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 8,400, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Lancaster from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Lancaster, Wisconsin: 1 piston single. 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 Wisconsin.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 1 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
- Determination pending.
- Self service fuel available H24 via credit card.
- Occasional vehicles/people crossing runway to reach hangar area on east side of runway.
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.