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Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport (KMOP) is a city-owned general aviation field two miles northeast of downtown Mount Pleasant, Michigan, offering a paved main runway and a shorter turf strip for light aircraft. Active since 1940 and home to a local Experimental Aircraft Association chapter, it remains a modest but active training and touring field for the mid-Michigan area, popular for its regular antique and homebuilt aircraft gatherings.
Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport is a small city-owned public-use aerodrome serving Mount Pleasant and the surrounding Isabella County area of central Michigan. It has been active since 1940 and today supports general aviation flying, including flight training, based aircraft and occasional airshow-style gatherings. For a simulator pilot it offers a straightforward, uncontrolled field with a paved runway long enough for light twins and a grass crosswind strip, set in flat rural Michigan countryside.
The airport lies about two miles (three kilometres) northeast of the central business district of Mount Pleasant, in Isabella County, Michigan. It sits within the area served by Saginaw approach and departure control, which provides an approach/departure frequency for aircraft operating in the vicinity, though the field itself is uncontrolled.
The airport has two physical runways. The main runway, 09/27, is 4,951 feet long with a hard surface and is lit, suitable for light aircraft and small twins. A secondary runway, 05/23, is 2,494 feet long with a grass surface, offering a shorter unpaved option better suited to light general aviation types. Field elevation is 751 feet.
Pilots can expect an air-to-ground/approach frequency of 126.45 MHz for Saginaw approach and departure control. Weather information is available on the automated weather observing system (AWOS-3) on 110.6 MHz. A remote communications outlet to Lansing radio is available on 122.6 MHz. The common traffic advisory frequency and unicom, used for self-announcing arrivals, departures and circuit intentions at this non-towered field, is 123 MHz. There is no ILS at the airport.
KMOP is an uncontrolled airport, so pilots are expected to self-announce their position and intentions on the CTAF/unicom frequency of 123 MHz when inbound, joining, and in the traffic pattern. No specific circuit altitudes, joining procedures or noise abatement restrictions are detailed in available sources, so pilots should follow standard non-towered airport practice and remain alert for other traffic, including based light aircraft and any activity associated with the airport's homebuilt and antique aircraft community.
Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport became active in 1940 and has since served as the general aviation field for Mount Pleasant and the surrounding area. It is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a local general aviation facility. The airport is home to a chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association and has hosted airshow-style events, including a "Wings and Wheels" gathering showcasing antique, homebuilt and classic aircraft alongside cars.
The airport covers 344 acres and continues to serve general aviation, with 17 aircraft based on the field, comprising mostly single-engine airplanes, one multi-engine airplane and one jet. In the twelve months ending December 2020 it recorded 10,220 aircraft operations, averaging 22 per day, the large majority general aviation with a small proportion of military movements. A fixed-base operator on the field sells both avgas and jet fuel and offers facilities including a conference room, crew lounge and snooze rooms.
