Drummond Island Airport
DRM · KDRM · Drummond Island, Michigan · Chippewa County · map
Drummond Island Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southwest of Drummond Island, Michigan, 668 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
Weather right now KDRM · observed 5:55 pm EDT (21:55 UTC), 10 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southeast (160°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 58°F (15°C), dew point 47°F (8°C)
- Altimeter 29.80 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KDRM 062155Z AUTO 16006KT 130V190 10SM CLR 15/08 A2980 RMK AO2 T01460084
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DRM · ICAO KDRM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 668 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Lake Huron sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1948
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 01/19 | 2,500 × 150 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 650 ft, trees 42 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 170 ft, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 01: trees on the approach
- Runway 19: trees on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Drm and aWOS-3P | 118.325 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 906-493-6410.
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 Drummond Island from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Drummond Island, Michigan: 6 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 Michigan.
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
- Golf carts and pedestrians xng runway 08/26 due to golf crs on both sides.
- Activate PAPI runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- +4 feet fence, 20 feet dist; +10 feet hill, 10 feet dist, 50 feet L; +18 feet building, 97 feet dist, 50 feet R; +50 feet trees, 20 feet dist, 90 feet L/R.
- +6 feet fence, 54 feet dist; +15 feet road, 112 feet dist; +20 feet building, 0 feet dist, 200 feet R.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Approach ratio 4:1 to dthr ovr 75 feet tree, 321 feet dist, 247 feet L.
- Cntr 20 feet of runway from int runway 08/26 north to the hngr line is asphalt, rmndr of runway grass.
- Deer, birds, and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.