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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100 octane avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1961
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE/SW | 1,100 × 25 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Nantucket Memorial (12 nm southeast), Martha'S Vineyard Airport (15 nm west), Cape Cod Gateway Airport (20 nm north), Chatham Municipal (25 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
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Muskeget Island from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Muskeget Island, MA as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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/MA55.json.
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 27, 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.