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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100LL avgas; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Corry-Lawrence Airport (13 nm west), Chautauqua County/Jamestown (20 nm north), Bradford Regional (32 nm east), Venango Regional (35 nm southwest).
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 Pennsylvania · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Pennsylvania.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Brokenstraw Flyers 4 aircraft · Pittsfield, 4 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Pittsfield:
- Luftladder, Inc. 2 aircraft on the certificate
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Pittsfield 14 aircraft · 8 gliders, 6 piston singles
- Brokenstraw Flyers 4 aircraft in town
- Luftladder, Inc. 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Brokenstraw Flyers 4 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Pennsylvania 1,834 since 1982 · 233 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Pennsylvania 118 landing places
- Pennsylvania 6,186 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/PA55.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 October 29, 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.