Sandusky City Airport
Y83 · Sandusky, Michigan · Sanilac County · map
Sandusky City Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Sandusky, 3 miles north of Sandusky, Michigan, 777 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 3,499 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 24 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,200 takeoffs and landings a year. About 8 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Y83
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Sandusky
- Elevation
- 777 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm; weekends, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1961
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,499 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 2,271 × 153 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 28: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 374 ft, road 17 ft high 58 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Freeland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.7 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,200, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Sandusky from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Sandusky, Michigan: 9 piston singles, 4 drones, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter. 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 Michigan.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- +3 feet embankment, 50 feet from runway 36 threshold; -10 feet ditch, 100 feet east of runway 18/36.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- Approach ratio 6:1 to dthr ovr 63 feet tree, 380 feet dist, 150 feet R.
- Deer and large birds on and in the vicinity of 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.