Modisett Airport
9V5 · Rushville, Nebraska · Sheridan County · map
Modisett Airport is a public-use airport owned by Rushville Airport Authority, 2 miles northeast of Rushville, Nebraska, 3,751 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,909 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,250 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 9V5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Rushville Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 3,751 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
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cheyenne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,909 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 32 ft high 466 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Crawford and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.95 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,250, 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 Rushville from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Rushville, Nebraska: 8 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32; PAPI and runway end identifier lights runways 14 and 32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Available H24 via credit card.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Courtesy car available.
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.