Banks Airport
ME5 · Swans Island, Maine · Hancock County · map
Banks Airport is a public-use airport, 5 miles north of Swans Island, Maine, 100 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 1,500 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ME5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 100 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Halifax sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1983
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 1,500 × 30 ft | Gravel, poor | |
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete, fair |
- Runway 10: tree 40 ft high 20 ft from the end
- Runway 28: threshold displaced 300 ft, 1,200 ft available for landing, tree 25 ft high 1 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 133.6 |
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Aircraft registered in Swans Island from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Swans Island, ME as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- See asp case 99-ANE-8016-NRA.
- Ingress and egress to helipad between 130 and 320 degreess mag.
- Dthr 300 feet; lda 1200 feet.
- Approach slp gtr than 45 degrees.
- Runway 10/28 surface rough with large stones, steep grads and no LN of sight between ends.
- All operations rstrd to daylight VFR only.
- Rock drainage swale air carriers 600 feet from runway 28 threshold, approximately 40 feet wide at centerline.
- Runway 10/28 +6 feet rock ledge 50 feet from centerline, southside of airport.
- Runway 10: +20 feet trees 50 feet R of centerline, 430 feet from threshold.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Helicopter coords 44 09 54.80N 68 25 48.80W; helicopter elev 86 feet.
- Com tower 500 feet above ground level, 1 MI southeast of runway.
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.