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Charlevoix Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airfield on the shore of Lake Michigan in the northwestern Lower Peninsula, a short distance southwest of downtown Charlevoix. It combines general aviation traffic with scheduled air-taxi flights out to Beaver Island, making it a busy little field for its size. A single hard-surfaced runway, uncontrolled and served by UNICOM, handles everything from light singles to business jets.
Charlevoix Municipal Airport (KCVX) is a city-owned, public-use aerodrome serving Charlevoix, Michigan, in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. It is used mainly for general aviation but also supports scheduled air-taxi service to Beaver Island, giving it a mix of light piston traffic, business jets and short-haul commercial flights that makes it an interesting stop for a visiting simulator pilot.
The airport lies in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, on the southwest side of the city of Charlevoix, close to Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix, and is easily reached off US 31. It is an uncontrolled field with no tower, relying on UNICOM for traffic advisories.
Charlevoix Municipal has a single physical runway, 09/27, 4,525 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting.
Traffic at Charlevoix Municipal is worked on CTAF/UNICOM at 122.8 MHz. Weather is broadcast on an AWOS-3 station listed at 120 MHz. En route contact with Minneapolis Center can be made on 134.6 MHz. There is no ILS at the field.
As an uncontrolled airport, arriving traffic self-announces and coordinates over UNICOM on 122.8 MHz. The airport operates a voluntary quiet-hours policy and a preferred runway usage arrangement intended to reduce noise disturbance during nighttime hours, so pilots should be mindful of this when choosing a runway for arrival or departure.
The airfield sits about half a mile to one nautical mile southwest of downtown Charlevoix, between Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix, with the town and its waterfront serving as the principal visual landmark for pilots inbound to the field.
The current airport site, roughly half a mile southwest of downtown Charlevoix, was established in the early-to-mid 1950s and has since seen numerous upgrades. The City of Charlevoix took over direct operation and staffing of the airport on 1 April 2011. Over the years the field has seen a small number of notable incidents, including a landing accident involving a Piper Seneca in 2001, a fatal Beechcraft Bonanza crash while on an instrument approach in 2011, and a landing-gear-related crash landing in 2019 following a flight from Beaver Island, none of which resulted in injuries.
Charlevoix Municipal remains a busy general aviation airport with a strong component of business and leisure jet traffic alongside two charter operators, Island Airways and Fresh Air Aviation, providing scheduled flights to Beaver Island. The airport runs its own city-operated fixed-base operation offering 100LL and Jet A fuel under the Avfuel brand, along with a crew lounge and conference room; an expanded fuel farm became operational in 2022 to keep pace with rising traffic.
