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Muskeget Island Airport

MA55 · Muskeget Island, Massachusetts · Nantucket County · map

Muskeget Island Airport is a private airport, 10 miles west of Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, 90 feet above sea level. Its one runway, NE/SW, is 1,100 feet of grass. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA MA55
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 90 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: beacon see the remarks below
Fuel: 100 octane avgas
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: New York sectional
Magnetic variation: 16W
In the FAA's files since: March 1961

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
NE/SW	1,100 × 25 ft	Grass

Aircraft registered in Muskeget Island from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Muskeget Island, MA as the owner's town.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal

2025-08-10ERA25LA296 · Maule Mx-7-180A N1052T · accident · no injuries

2019-10-21GAA20CA041 · Maule Mx7 N1052T · accident · no injuries

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

Katama Airpark 1B2 · 10 nm west Nantucket Memorial ACK · 12 nm southeast Martha'S Vineyard Airport MVY · 15 nm west Falmouth Airpark 5B6 · 19 nm northwest Cape Cod Gateway Airport HYA · 20 nm north Cape Cod Airport 2B1 · 22 nm north Chatham Municipal CQX · 25 nm northeast Waine Heliport 19MA · 7 nm southeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Existed prior to 1959.
Activate rotating beacon - 132.5.
Emergency use only.
2/3 owned crocker snow JR.; adam, andrew and nicholas snow. Other 1/3 owned by Nantucket (under lnd conservation).
Rough surface of beach grass and poison ivy and patches of sand.

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.