White Birch Airport
NK68 · Hancock, New York · Delaware County · map
White Birch Airport is a private airport owned by Deposit Flying Club INC, 6 miles north of Hancock, New York, 1,860 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 1,910 feet of grass.
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 NK68
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Deposit Flying Club INC
- Elevation
- 1,860 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to October, weekends, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 1,910 × 70 ft | Grass, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 17: trees 22 ft high 70 ft from the end
- Runway 35: brush 14 ft high 203 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction, aircraft rental
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sidney Municipal (16 nm north), Sullivan County International (31 nm southeast), Greater Binghamton/Edwin A Link Field (31 nm west), Albert S Nader Regional (31 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Sidney Municipal (16 nm north), Sullivan County International (31 nm southeast), Greater Binghamton/Edwin A Link Field (31 nm west), Albert S Nader Regional (31 nm north).
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 New York · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR use only.
- Airport in town of TOMPKINS-1/2 MI south of hnk vortac, 7 MI from village of Hancock and 40MI from binghamton,NY.
- Runway 17/35 non-standard low-intensity runway lights; lights on cones
- +100 feet ridge at 2500 feet; +200 feet ridge at 3300 feet.
- Grass soft in spring or after rain.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Hancock from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Hancock, New York: 2 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.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in New York.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Hancock 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in New York 1,964 since 1982 · 249 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New York 126 landing places
- New York 6,660 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NK68.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 November 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.