Christman Field
CO55 · Fort Collins, Colorado · Larimer County · map
Christman Field is a private airport owned by Colorado State University, 3 miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado, 5,160 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 4,000 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CO55
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Colorado State University
- Elevation
- 5,160 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cheyenne sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 4,000 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: power line 30 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 34: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.05 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency. |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Northern Colorado Regional (11 nm southeast), Greeley-Weld County (25 nm east), Vance Brand Airport (26 nm south), Boulder Municipal (34 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Northern Colorado Regional (11 nm southeast), Greeley-Weld County (25 nm east), Vance Brand Airport (26 nm south), Boulder Municipal (34 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Colorado · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Pvt university airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Cntr marked with plus sign.
- 2 unlighted towers on airport, approximately 30 feet high.
- Airport under construction 03/01/2026 - 06/01/2026.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fort Collins from the FAA register
165 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Collins, Colorado: 114 piston singles, 10 balloons, 9 piston twins, 9 drones, 8 gliders. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Fort Collins, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Freedom Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Fort Collins, 5 miles away
- High Planes Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Fort Collins, 5 miles away
- Noco Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Fort Collins, 5 miles away Northern Colorado Flying Club is a tax-exempt recreational flying club organized to provide convenient and economical recreational flying for its members.
Repair stations in Fort Collins:
- Century Helicopters INC Century Helicopters is an FAA-certified repair station in Fort Collins, Colorado, providing maintenance, repair, and completion services for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
- Phoenix Turbine Overhaul and Repair, LLC.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Fort Collins 165 aircraft · 114 piston singles, 10 balloons, 9 piston twins
- Blue Ocean Aerospace LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Walker Manufacturing CO 4 aircraft in town
- Altevola LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Scion Helicopters LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Hangar 2 Air LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Freedom Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- High Planes Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Noco Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Century Helicopters INC · repair station
- Phoenix Turbine Overhaul and Repair, LLC. · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,860 since 1982 · 383 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CO55.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 6, 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.