MBL

Manistee County Blacker Airport

ICAO KMBL44.2727°N 86.2465°W621 ft / 189 mSmall airport
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Manistee County Blacker Airport (IATA: MBL, ICAO: KMBL) is a small airport in Manistee, Michigan, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,501 ft (1,677 m). In 2025 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940
APR 1940
OpenedManistee County Blacker Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Manistee Airport Terminal
10/28091° / 271° · LIT
LENGTH5,501 ft1,677 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt
01/19001° / 181° · LIT
LENGTH2,721 ft829 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
10K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MBL. From the Wikipedia article “Manistee County Blacker Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers16K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,521of 3,974 · #599 North America · #415 USLongest runway5,501 ft1,677 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,389of 29,823 · =1,651 North America · =1,309 USElevation621 ft189 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#24,928of 43,341 · #11,999 North America · #9,993 USAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =338 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
AWOSAWOS 3111.400
RDOLANSING RDO111.400
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800