Bendigo Airport
74N · Tower City, Pennsylvania · Dauphin County · map
Bendigo Airport is a public-use airport owned by Gene Bendigo & Helen Bendigo Trust, 2 miles south of Tower City, Pennsylvania, 791 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 2,325 feet of asphalt and concrete.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 74N
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Gene Bendigo & Helen Bendigo Trust
- Elevation
- 791 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 2,325 × 60 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees 34 ft high 710 ft from the end
- Runway 23: VASI, two boxes on the right, threshold displaced 181 ft, tree 23 ft high 441 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Approach and departure | 126.45 |
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Aircraft registered in Tower City from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Tower City, Pennsylvania: 3 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Built before 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Closed daily sunset to sunrise.
- VASI out of service indefinitely.
- Approach ratio 28:1 to dthr.
- 160 feet lghtd tower 400 feet north of runway midfield.
- Rapidly rising trrn 1500 above sea level N-NW of runway 5. MT ridge 1500 above sea level 1 NM south of airport parallel to runway 5/23.
- Deer and wildlife 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.