Nelund Field: the Mishawaka airport in the federal list

ACTIVATED JUNE 1985 · CLOSED INDEFINITELY, NOVEMBER 2026

The record: Exactly one airport in the current federal record carries Mishawaka as its associated city, and it is one no Mishawaka history reached mentions: Nelund Field, identifier 9II2, a private strip three miles northeast of the city's center, activated in June 1985. The FAA Airport Master Record (printed 10 November 2026, data current 29 October 2026) reads it whole: owner of record Harold Nelund, of 503 East Colfax Avenue, South Bend; ten acres; elevation 750 feet; unattended; no fuel; a single turf runway, east–west, 1,630 by 70 feet, with power lines and trees at its ends. Whether the strip's ground sits inside the Mishawaka corporation line or on Penn Township ground under a Mishawaka associated city is not settled by any source reached — the federal record assigns the city, not the boundary — and the St. Joseph County GIS corporation lines are the settling source, the same open instrument as at the Simon field. The field's one appearance in the accident record, its owner's own hard landing in 1997, is carried in the accident entry below.

Its present state: The federal display for the November 2026 chart cycle gives Nelund Field's status in two words of record: Closed Indefinitely — the Master Record's remark A110-002 reads "(ARPT STATUS) ARPT CLSD INDEFLY." The record's inspection block is as quiet as the status: no inspection date carried, and the last information request dated 28 October 2011. So Mishawaka's only federally listed airport of its own is, as of this build's check date, a closed private strip: the name in the list, the ground idle. No based-aircraft or operations figure for the field appears in any current record reached; the full NASR airport record is the settling source.

Sources:

1. FAA Airport Master Record (5010) for 9II2 — print date 10 November 2026, data current 29 October 2026: Nelund Field, associated city Mishawaka, county St. Joseph, 3 miles NE; owner Harold Nelund, 503 E. Colfax Avenue, South Bend; 10 acres; elevation 750 feet; runway E/W 1,630 × 70 feet, turf; remark A110-002, "ARPT CLSD INDEFLY"; last information request 28 October 2011.
2. FAA NFDC airport display, chart cycle 29 October – 26 November 2026 — status "Closed Indefinitely," November 2026. AirNav, FAA information effective 22 January 2026 — activation date June 1985.
3. The enumeration itself: current FAA-derived Indiana facility lists (SkyVector, Pilot Getaways, FlightAware) swept for associated city Mishawaka — exactly two facilities returned, this airport and the Edison Lakes heliport of the next entry.