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Airports — Lakeville
Lakeville has no airport, and never has had one that the record keeps — but the leg prints at full evidence size anyway, because the negative here is a searched fact, not an absence of looking, and because the township's air record is not quite empty: its largest lake holds a documented emergency landing, its edges are ringed by other townships' turf strips, and it sits almost exactly between two counties' public fields, South Bend International twelve and a half miles north and Plymouth Municipal eleven and a half south, using both and owning neither. this section runs the township test whole, names every boundary field the search returned, prints the one event at its true strength, and closes the standard tests one by one.
The township test: no field in Union Township, at full directory size
TESTED NEGATIVE · the search set named
No FAA-registered airport, airstrip, or heliport in Lakeville or Union Township was found in any carrier searched. The sweeps, in the order run: the state airports list of a national airport-directory carrier, which states 480…
Boundary south: the Marshall County fields across the line
BOUNDARY · Marshall County ground, never claimed
The two closest registered fields to Union Township both stand south of its line, in another county. The ground immediately south of Union Township is Marshall County (its German and North Townships), and the fields sited there…
Boundary west and northwest: other builds' strips
POINTER · Lincoln and Liberty Township ground
West and northwest, the ring closes with strips that belong to sister builds. In Lincoln Township, on the Walkerton build's ground, the closest-fields and directory records name Drake Field , May's Strip 87IN (1,320 feet of turf…
Riddles Lake, September 2012: the township's one documented aviation event
SEPTEMBER 2012 · PRESS STRENGTH ONLY — NOT AN ACCIDENT OF RECORD
Two seaplanes came down on Riddles Lake to wait out the weather, and one of them hit the water too hard. The township's whole documented aviation history, at the only strength it exists: a press aggregation of September 2012…
The accident record: negative, with its limit and its refused confusables
TESTED · NTSB record for this ground: none returned
No accident-board record for Lakeville, Indiana or Union Township was returned by any carrier searched. The limit is stated as plainly as the result: a direct query of the board's CAROL database for Lakeville was not executed …
The standard tests: first flight, airmail, war years, famous landings, air shows
ALL NEGATIVE for this ground · searches named
Each of this section's standard tests was run for Lakeville and Union Township, and each returns the county's answer at the county seat, not here. First flight — negative: searches for a Lakeville barnstormer, first flight or…
South Bend International: the field to the north
POINTER · South Bend's whole, not dug here
Lakeville's metropolitan field stands 12.61 miles straight-line north (computed) — and no record reached ties it to Lakeville. The name line, brief, at history-page and federal-record strength: South Bend International Airport…
Plymouth Municipal: the field to the south — and a tie that isn't
POINTER · Marshall County's field
The nearer public field is the other county's. Plymouth Municipal Airport, C65 (FAA LID C65; IATA PLY), in the federal data display: at 41.36500, −86.30028, elevation 799.9 feet, "2 miles N of PLYMOUTH, IN," status operational…
Heliports, the six aircraft that are not a facility, and the closing account
November 2026 · tested negatives and named gaps
The heliport test is negative, and the one number that looks like an air facility in the town's data is not one. No registered heliport in Lakeville or Union Township was found in any carrier searched — the township has no…
The Timetable Snapshot and the First Jets — a Named Gap
Banked record, Airports lk-air-sbn; South Bend International Airport history (flysbn.com), read November 2026; this lane's searches
The checklist asks for a timetable snapshot and a first-jets record for the field; neither stands in any carrier this section could open, and the gap is named with the search shown. What the airport's own history page does carry…
The Airport Authority's Founding and the Terminal's Costs — Two Conflicts Printed Whole
Indiana State Board of Accounts reports for the St. Joseph County Airport Authority (2005 CAFR; 2007 CAFR; county annual financial reports…
The banked article names the Airport Authority as current owner and stops; the checklist asks for the founding and the capital record, and both are dug here — with the carriers in conflict, printed whole and never merged. The…
The Customs Step — the 2014 Project Dated, Its Completion Date Unreached
Banked record, Airports lk-air-sbn; airport record of the 23 April 2014 renaming, as searched November 2026
The banked article prints the name line whole to South Bend International Airport, 23 April 2014, but no customs dates for the International step; this section dates the step's machinery as far as the carriers go, and names where…
One Terminal, Three Modes — and the Enplanement Points
No intermodal statement and no enplanement figure stood in the banked article; both are supplied here at the size the carriers support — the claim in the airport's own words, the traffic at dated points rather than a fabricated…
The Route Map, Verified November 2026 — Five Carriers, Sixteen Nonstop Destinations
South Bend International Airport's own carrier and destination set, verified November 2026 (settler G-AIR-7); carrier listings dated…
The banked article deliberately printed no route map, because the secondary carriers conflicted; the audit's settler is the airport's own set verified in November 2026, and that set is now printed, with the stale conflict named…