Loring International
ME16 · Limestone, Maine · Aroostook County · map
Loring International is a private airport owned by Loring Development Authority, 3 miles northwest of Limestone, Maine, 746 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 12,101 feet of asphalt and concrete.
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 ME16
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Loring Development Authority
- Elevation
- 746 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,154 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Halifax sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 21W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 12,101 × 300 ft | Asphalt and concrete, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 01: VASI, twelve boxes, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
- Runway 19: VASI, twelve boxes, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1)
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 123.0 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- hangars
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Presque Isle International (17 nm southwest), Northern Aroostook Regional (27 nm northwest), Houlton International (50 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Caribou Municipal (7 nm southwest), Presque Isle International (17 nm southwest), Long Lake Seaplane Base (20 nm northwest), Northern Aroostook Regional (27 nm northwest).
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 Maine · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Pvdd small aircraft use; VFR,day operations; excludes use durg winter/snow season.
- CSTMS-CIV-ENTER no of civil operns rqr cstms in rmrks sect of DD 175.
- Day VFR only.
- Rectangular pattern altitude: 1154 feet above ground level; ovhd pattern altitude: 1654 feet above ground level.
- NON-STD high-intensity runway lights due to no threshold lights; no edge lights at taxiway intersections; no amber lenses last 2000 feet each runway end.
- Out of service indefinitely.
- Out of service indefinitely.
- Runway 01/19 NON-STD markings; military pir markings both ends; edge stripes located 70 feet either side of centerline; runway 01 markings faded.
- Out of service indefinitely.
- Out of service indefinitely.
- First 1000 feet each runway end concrete, mid 10101 feet asphalt.
- Concrete ptns of runway grooved 70 feet either side of centerline.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Limestone from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Limestone, ME 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
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
- Accidents and incidents in Maine 529 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Maine 66 landing places
- Maine 1,427 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ME16.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 30, 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.