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VERIFIED NOVEMBER 2026 · THE LEG'S AS-OF ARTICLE
The inventory, complete: As of this build's check date, aviation on Mishawaka ground and under Mishawaka's name stands as follows. Inside the federal record for the city itself: one private airport, Nelund Field, closed indefinitely; one hospital heliport, Edison Lakes, operational — the city's entire listed plant. Across the county line in Elkhart County: the Mishawaka Pilots Club's field, 3C1, operational, public-use, two runways, the club in its seventy-ninth year and still flying its Father's Day fly-in from ground it has owned since the 1950s. The 1934 field's ground at Dragoon Trail and Elm Road is farms and houses; the 1949 field's ground on Day Road is houses and a temple across the road; the 1911 exhibition field's corner is a South Bend–postal neighborhood with nothing on it to say an airplane ever rose there. The regional airport is South Bend International — South Bend's field, its authority the county's, its route map, enplanement records, and name line carried whole in the South Bend build and verified there at the same November 2026 date; Mishawaka's share in it is the share of a neighboring city in a county institution, and it is printed here at exactly that size.
The checklist's remaining items, as tested negatives: The standard airport leg asks for a timetable snapshot, first jets, enplanements, a route map, customs, and an airport authority. For Mishawaka each was tested and each returns the same answer at its own size: no scheduled carrier has ever served a Mishawaka field in any record reached, so there is no timetable and there were no first jets; no enplanements exist to series; no route map can be drawn from Mishawaka ground in November 2026 because no route departs it; no customs facility has ever stood here; and no airport authority governs any Mishawaka field — the club's private corporation and one hospital's facilities office are the whole of its air governance. A city that built its name into an airport three times — 1934, 1949, and 1957 — and kept the name flying for ninety years did it every time on somebody else's ground. That, and not an absence, is the Mishawaka air record: the record is complete at its true size, and it is the size it is.
Sources:
- FAA NFDC airport display, chart cycle 29 October – 26 November 2026, and the Airport Master Records for 9II2, 5IN2, and 3C1 — the statuses and plant of this entry, verified November 2026.
- South Bend build, Airports (this project's own record) — South Bend International whole, including its route map as verified November 2026; pointed to, not repeated.
- The entries of this section — the 1911, 1934, and 1949 grounds and their present states, each sourced in its own entry.