Marlette Township Airport
77G · Marlette, Michigan · Sanilac County · map
Marlette Township Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southwest of Marlette, Michigan, 895 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 3,795 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 40 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 10,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 77G
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 895 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1975
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,795 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 01/19 | 3,500 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the right, tree 35 ft high 782 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 17 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 10 ft high 287 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Freeland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.7 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 10,000, 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 Marlette from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Marlette, Michigan: 10 drones, 5 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 · 4 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
- Activate PAPI runway 01, 10, 19, and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- Available H24 self service via credit card.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- 0-8 feet seasonal crops, 230 feet dist, 120 feet R.
- 0-8 feet seasonal crops, 200 feet dist, 96 feet R.
- Deer and large birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Terminal building aces: 5-2-3-1.
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.