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
- 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
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- 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. |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Maryland.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.