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Mettel Field is a small public general aviation airport three miles north of Connersville, in Fayette County, Indiana, owned by the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners. It offers a long hard-surfaced runway with an ILS alongside a shorter grass strip, making it a straightforward VFR and light IFR destination for pilots visiting east-central Indiana.
Mettel Field (KCEV) is a public general aviation airport located three miles north of Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana. It is owned by the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners and is classified within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a general aviation facility. With a long paved, lit runway equipped with an ILS and a secondary grass strip, it offers a useful stop for both training flights and cross-country traffic in the region.
The airfield sits at an elevation of 860 feet, three miles north of the town of Connersville, Indiana, at coordinates 39.6982, -85.1311. It lies within the area served by Dayton Approach/Departure control.
Mettel Field has two physical runways. Runway 18/36 is 6,485 feet long, hard-surfaced, lit, and equipped with an ILS. Runway 04/22 is a shorter 2,686-foot grass strip.
Pilots can contact Dayton Approach/Departure on 134.45 MHz. An AWOS-3 automated weather observation is available on 118.325 MHz. The CTAF/UNICOM frequency is 122.8 MHz. An ILS serves runway 18.
Mettel Field has no control tower; traffic should use the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz to coordinate arrivals, departures and circuit traffic in the standard uncontrolled-field manner.
Mettel Field was established as a public airfield serving Connersville and is owned by the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners. For a short period around 1951, Lake Central Airlines operated scheduled Beechcraft Bonanza services into the field. The airport covers 444 acres. In 2009 it recorded 8,772 aircraft operations, an average of 24 per day, of which 96 percent were general aviation, 4 percent air taxi, and less than 1 percent military; nine aircraft were then based there, 78 percent single-engine and 22 percent multi-engine.
Mettel Field remains a general aviation airport serving Connersville and the surrounding area, operating under the ownership of the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners. It continues to offer its paved runway with ILS approach capability alongside the grass crosswind strip for light aircraft operations.
