Dowagiac Municipal
C91 · Dowagiac, Michigan · Cass County · map
Dowagiac Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Dowagiac, 1 mile northwest of Dowagiac, Michigan, 747 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 4,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 14 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,600 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C91
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Dowagiac
- Elevation
- 747 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1974
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,700 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 2,176 × 100 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 54 ft high 930 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 60 ft high 947 ft from the end
- Runway 04: tree 65 ft high 1,042 ft from the end
- Runway 22: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 388 ft, tree 81 ft high 921 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.55 | |
| Goshen and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.55 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,600, 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 Dowagiac from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Dowagiac, Michigan: 9 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 since 1982, 1 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 medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27; PAPI runways 09 and runway 27; and runway end identifier lights runways 09 and 27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service fuel available 24 hour.
- +2 feet crops, 2 feet tall, 75 dist, 250 L and R.
- Runway 04/22 and runway 22 displaced threshold marked with 3 feet yellow cones.
- Approach ratio 20:1 at dslpd threshold.
- Deer and large birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Model R/C aircraft operations east side of runway 04/22.
- Admin building access, depress V, then III-II simultaneous, then I.
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.