Mettel Field
CEV · KCEV · Connersville, Indiana · Fayette County · map
Mettel Field is a public-use airport, 3 miles north of Connersville, Indiana, 866 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 6,503 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 13 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 8,272 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CEV · ICAO KCEV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 866 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, Jet A
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1946
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,503 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 2,601 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), road 15 ft high 340 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 58 ft high 1,620 ft from the end
- Runway 04: pole 32 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 22: trees 48 ft high 350 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.45 | |
| Cev and aWOS-3 | 118.325 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 765-827-6649.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 8,272, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Connersville from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Connersville, Indiana: 12 piston singles, 1 drone. 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 · 4 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
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset to low intst; to incr intst and activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18; runway end identifier lights runway 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service H24.
- Crops 220 feet R of centerline.
- Crops 275 feet L/R of centerline.
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.