Nappanee Municipal
C03 · Nappanee, Indiana · Elkhart County · map
Nappanee Municipal is a public-use airport, 3 miles east of Nappanee, Indiana, 860 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,675 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C03
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 860 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,675 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: threshold displaced 250 ft, road 13 ft high 265 ft from the end
- Runway 27: threshold displaced 185 ft, crops 5 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Approach and departure | 132.05 | |
| Goshen and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Nappanee from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Nappanee, Indiana: 5 piston singles, 2 drones, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 business jet. 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 Indiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Available aft hour with credit card.
- First 670 feet runway 09 unlighted.
- 5 feet crops 20 - 200 feet from runway end on centerline.
- Approach ratio 39:1 to dthr.
- Approach ratio 41:1 to dthr.
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.