Chesapeake Ranch Airport
MD50 · Lusby, Maryland · Calvert County · map
Chesapeake Ranch Airport is a private airport, 4 miles southeast of Lusby, Maryland, 116 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 2,500 feet of asphalt.
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 MD50
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 116 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1966
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 2,500 × 50 ft | Asphalt | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: trees 40 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.7 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - UNICOM. |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: St. Mary'S County Regional (7 nm west), Cambridge-Dorchester Regional (21 nm northeast), Easton/Newnam Field (31 nm northeast), Maryland Airport (34 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: St. Mary'S County Regional (7 nm west), Cambridge-Dorchester Regional (21 nm northeast), Easton/Newnam Field (31 nm northeast), Crisfield-Somerset County (34 nm southeast).
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 Maryland · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR only.
- Non commercial field for pvt use of Chesapeake Ranch estates members and guests only.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - UNICOM.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Lusby from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Lusby, Maryland: 27 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 1 business jet. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Maryland.
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:
- Pax Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Hollywood, 9 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 · 5 since 1982, 1 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
- Aircraft registered in Lusby 31 aircraft · 27 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprops
- Nalls Aviation INC 2 aircraft in town
- 9Sixteen Motorsports 2 aircraft in town
- Pax Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 5 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Maryland 836 since 1982 · 110 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Maryland 34 landing places
- Maryland 2,348 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MD50.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 29, 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.