Grimes Airport
8N1 · Bethel, Pennsylvania · Berks County · map
Grimes Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles east of Bethel, Pennsylvania, 582 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,720 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8N1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 582 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 2,720 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 11: threshold displaced 250 ft, road 14 ft high 66 ft from the end
- Runway 29: threshold displaced 270 ft, tree 34 ft high 92 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Bethel from the FAA register
36 aircraft are registered to owners in Bethel, Pennsylvania: 36 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Runways 11 and 29 dthr marked by red discs.
- Runways 11 and 29 marked with white discs.
- Approach slp 22:1 to dthr.
- Approach slp 11:1 to dthr.
- First 700 feet of runway on west end unusable durg ery spring due to wet conditions.
- AD closed sunset to sunrise.
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.