Wellsville Muni/Tarantine Field
ELZ · KELZ · Wellsville, New York · Allegany County · map
Wellsville Muni/Tarantine Field is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Wellsville, 2 miles southwest of Wellsville, New York, 2,124 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 5,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ELZ · ICAO KELZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Wellsville
- Elevation
- 2,124 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1970
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 5,300 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 43 ft high 631 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS), tree 45 ft high 1,241 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Elz and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.275 | |
| Wayland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.325 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 585-380-1032.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Wellsville from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Wellsville, New York: 5 balloons, 4 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in New York.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 since 1982, 3 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
- Beacon on dusk to dawn daily.
- (E25) based on an ultimate length of 5700 feet.
- Activate mals runway 28; runway end identifier lights runway 10; PAPI runway 10 and 28; high-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- Unatndd weekends, memorial day, 4TH of july, labor day, thanksgiving, christmas eve, christmas and New years day.
- 15 feet road and 9 feet fence 250 - 460 feet right.
- PAPI unusable beyond 9 degreess right and left of centerline.
- Runway 10 clnc slp 19:1 to dthr.
- Pilots conducting efvs operations; be aware led als in use runway 28.
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.