Solberg/Hunterdon Airport
N51 · Readington, New Jersey · Hunterdon County · map
Solberg/Hunterdon Airport is a public-use airport owned by Solberg Aviation Company, 1 mile northwest of Readington, New Jersey, 190 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 5,598 feet of asphalt and grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 48 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 23,005 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA N51
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Solberg Aviation Company
- Elevation
- 190 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1942
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 5,598 × 50 ft | Asphalt and grass | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 3,444 × 200 ft | Grass, good | |
| 10/28 | 2,010 × 100 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 04: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 544 ft
- Runway 22: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,319 ft, tree 66 ft high 1,655 ft from the end
- Runway 13: tree 40 ft high 108 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 44 ft high 48 ft from the end
- Runway 10: trees 58 ft high 602 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 132.8 | |
| WILKES-BARRE and star | 127.6 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 23,005, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Readington from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Readington, New Jersey: 3 piston singles. 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 Jersey.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 11 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
- Gco available on 121.725 through newark approach.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 04 and 22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 04 and 22 operates continuously.
- Airport unatndd all major holidays and christmas and New years eve afternoons.
- Runway 04/22 medium-intensity runway lights on paved 3735 feet by 50 feet portion of runway.
- Displaced thld 544 feet grass 180 feet wide.
- Displaced thld 1319 feet grass 180 feet wide.
- Runway 04 grass portion poor and unusable. Center asphalt portion excellent. Runway 22 grass portion poor and unusable.
- Noticeable bump where runway crosses gravel approach road to vortac.
- Runway 04 and runway 22 grass ptn poor.
- No tgl all runways.
- All runways dept straight out to 1200 feet above sea level before turning.
- Blimp and hot air balloon activity on and in the vicinity of airport spring through fall.
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.