Plihal Farms Airport
SD61 · Tyndall, South Dakota · Bon Homme County · map
Plihal Farms Airport is a private airport, 1 mile north of Tyndall, South Dakota, 1,435 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,545 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 SD61
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,435 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,545 × 75 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Chan Gurney Municipal (22 nm east), Parkston Municipal (22 nm north), Harold Davidson Field (44 nm east), Mitchell Municipal (46 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Springfield Municipal (8 nm south), Wagner Municipal (19 nm west), Chan Gurney Municipal (22 nm east), Parkston Municipal (22 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 South Dakota · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway soft when wet.
- Ctlg obstructions: power line and hangar north side. Fence on all sides of runway.
- Trespassers will be prosecuted
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Tyndall from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Tyndall, South Dakota: 5 piston singles, 3 balloons. 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 South Dakota.
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:
- Bon Homme Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Tyndall, 2 miles away
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 Tyndall 8 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 3 balloons
- Bon Homme Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in South Dakota 467 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in South Dakota 70 landing places
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/SD61.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 28, 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.