Nellis Field
NY20 · Fort Plain, New York · Montgomery County · map
Nellis Field is a private airport, 3 miles northwest of Fort Plain, New York, 700 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/32, is 2,750 feet of asphalt.
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 NY20
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 700 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/32 | 2,750 × 20 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 13: power line 34 ft high 1,360 ft from the end
- Runway 32: threshold displaced 475 ft, power line 31 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- hangars
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Albert S Nader Regional (31 nm southwest), Schenectady County (34 nm east), Saratoga County (36 nm east), Griffiss International (36 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Fulton County (16 nm east), Cooperstown-Westville Airport (22 nm southwest), Frankfort-Highland Airport (22 nm west), Duanesburg Airport (27 nm southeast).
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
- Record purposes only.
- <runway plowed winters.
- <10 degrees dogleg approximately 1200' from 13 end.
- 2' road 35' from threshold.
- 4' road 25' from threshold.
- Glider operations in the vicinity of airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fort Plain from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Plain, New York: 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, 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 · 2 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 Fort Plain 3 aircraft · 3 piston singles
- Sacandaga Air INC 2 aircraft in town
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 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 6,663 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NY20.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 6, 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.