Montauk Airport
MTP · KMTP · Montauk, New York · Suffolk County · map
Montauk Airport is a public-use airport owned by Montauk Airport INC, 3 miles northeast of Montauk, New York, 7 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 3,246 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MTP · ICAO KMTP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Montauk Airport INC
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to October, every day, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1958
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 3,246 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 302 ft, trees 36 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 668 ft, hill 40 ft high 208 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach | 125.975 | |
| Departure | 125.75 | |
| Woodstock and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.85 |
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Aircraft registered in Montauk from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Montauk, New York: 13 piston singles, 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 New York.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights and PAPI runway 06/24 - 121.7.
- Atndd apr 15 - oct.
- Runway 06, 5 feet fence, 200 feet from thld, 200 feet RT. 15 feet trees, 117 feet from thld, 205 feet RT. 30 feet trees, 0-200 feet from thld, 50 feet - 70 feet LT.
- Runway 24, 25FT - 35FT trees and terrain, 0-200 feet from runway, 200 feet RT to 250 feet LT.
- No touch and go.
- PAPI runway 6 temporary out of service.
- Runway 06, 33 feet pole, 212 feet from runway, 232 feet RT, clnc slp 15:1 to dthr. 15 feet road 300 feet from runway, perpendicular to extd runway centerline.
- Clnc slp 21:1 to displaced thld.
- Deer on or in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 06; 18 feet brush along runway edge 90 feet L; 30 feet pole 400 feet from thld 79 feet L; 31 feet pole 216 feet from runway thld 233 feet R.
- Runway 06; 26 feet tree 382 feet from thld 21 feet L; 25-32 feet trees 180-255 feet from thld 60-90 feet L; 11-17 feet trees 225-270 feet from thld 4-95 feet R.
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.