Trade Wind Airport
MA44 · Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts · Dukes County · map
Trade Wind Airport is a private airport owned by Marthas Vineyard Land Bank, 1 mile southwest of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, 43 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 2,200 feet of grass.
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 MA44
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Marthas Vineyard Land Bank
- Elevation
- 43 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 957 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 2,200 × 200 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 24: right-hand traffic pattern
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: Martha'S Vineyard Airport (4 nm southwest), Cape Cod Gateway Airport (19 nm northeast), New Bedford Regional (22 nm northwest), Nantucket Memorial (26 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Martha'S Vineyard Airport (4 nm southwest), Katama Airpark (5 nm south), Falmouth Airpark (9 nm north), Cape Cod Airport (16 nm northeast).
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 Massachusetts · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR use only; approaches cleared or thld displaced to provide 20:1 slps.
- Be aware of HI-SPD military jet and hvy helicopter traffic in the vicinity of otis afb and traffic using kmvy airport.
- Pattern altitude 1000 feet above sea level.
- Ctn: ILS traffic to kmvy passing ovhd.
- No ultralights allowed.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Oak Bluffs from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts: 5 piston singles, 1 piston twin. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Massachusetts.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Cape Cod Aero Club LLC 3 aircraft · Falmouth, 10 miles away Cape Cod Aero Club is a not-for-profit equity flying club based at Falmouth Airpark and Hyannis Airport on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- Cape Flight Instruction INC 1 aircraft · Cotuit, 14 miles away
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 Oak Bluffs 6 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 1 piston twins
- Cape Cod Aero Club LLC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Cape Flight Instruction INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Massachusetts 987 since 1982 · 91 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Massachusetts 38 landing places
- Massachusetts 2,648 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MA44.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 October 28, 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.