Brokenstraw Airport
PA55 · Pittsfield, Pennsylvania · Warren County · map
Brokenstraw Airport is a private airport, 1 mile east of Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, 1,230 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,650 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PA55
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,230 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,650 × 100 ft | Grass, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: threshold displaced 510 ft, pole 42 ft high 591 ft from the end
- Runway 27: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 685 ft, trees 45 ft high 526 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Pittsfield from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania: 8 gliders, 6 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- See airspace letter dated 12/03/92.
- 42 feet power line paralleling runway apprx 215 feet south of runway centerline; power line marked with orange spheres.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - 122.8.
- Runway 09/27 marked with yellow cones and lights.
- Runway 09 approach slope 20:1 to displaced threshold.
- Pvt road crosses runway 09 148 feet out from threshold.
- Runway 27 approach slope 20:1 to displaced threshold.
- Runway soft during spring thaw.
- Deer and geese on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Extensive glider operations weekends.
- Runway 09 520 feet terrain 2400 feet south; runway 27 370 feet terrain 3600 feet east.
- Rapidly rising terrain south of the 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.