Pottstown Municipal
N47 · Pottstown, Pennsylvania · Montgomery County · map
Pottstown Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the Borough of Pottstown, 2 miles northwest of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 256 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,704 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA N47
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Borough of Pottstown
- Elevation
- 256 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, unattnd
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1946
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,704 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 380 ft, tree 8 ft high 234 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 10 ft high 278 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 118.55 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.85 |
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Aircraft registered in Pottstown from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Pottstown, Pennsylvania: 25 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 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
- Built prior to 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26; runway end identifier lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency 122.8.
- 32 feet tree 106 feet from runway end, 238 feet right.
- Approach slope 22:1 to 380 feet dthr.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.