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Vinalhaven Airport (ME55) is a small general aviation airfield on Vinalhaven Island in Knox County, Maine, serving this Penobscot Bay community with a single unpaved runway. It has no control tower, no instrument approaches and no published radio frequency, making it a strictly visual, self-announced field for pilots familiar with island flying in Maine.
Vinalhaven Airport carries the ICAO identifier ME55 and sits on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, at an elevation of 56 feet. It is a modest general aviation strip with a single physical runway, no instrument landing system and no control tower, the kind of field that appeals to sim pilots wanting a taste of quiet island flying off the Maine coast.
The airfield lies about one mile north of the town of Vinalhaven, Maine, occupying a small parcel of land on Vinalhaven Island in Penobscot Bay (SkyVector). As an uncontrolled airfield it sits outside any tower-controlled airspace, and pilots should expect to operate under see-and-avoid procedures typical of remote island strips in this part of the Maine coast.
Vinalhaven Airport has a single physical runway, 05/23, 1,325 feet long with a hard surface. There is no ILS, and the short length and lack of instrument approach mean the field is suited to light general aviation traffic operating in good visual conditions.
No communications frequency is published for Vinalhaven Airport, so pilots should not expect an A/G or ATC service on any discrete channel. There are no navaids or instrument approach procedures associated with the field, reinforcing its character as a strictly VFR destination.
The airfield can be located roughly one mile north of the town of Vinalhaven on the island of the same name, a useful visual reference when inbound over Penobscot Bay (SkyVector).
