Peru Municipal
I76 · Peru, Indiana · Miami County · map
Peru Municipal is a public-use airport, 4 miles northwest of Peru, Indiana, 779 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 4,400 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 20 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 2,546 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA I76
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 779 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,400 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 451 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 12 ft high 450 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate advisory weather - UNICOM 4 clicks. |
| Approach and departure | 121.05 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,546, 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 Peru from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Peru, Indiana: 11 piston singles, 6 helicopters, 3 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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 Indiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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 runway end identifier lights runway 01 and 19; medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 01 and 19 operates continuously.
- Activate advisory weather - UNICOM 4 clicks.
- Closed major holidays.
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.