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Airports — North Liberty
North Liberty's aviation record is the opposite of its railroad record: where the trains left two lines, two depots and a diamond, the air left almost nothing — and what it left is recent, private, and small. Three turf strips have been registered in Liberty Township, all west or northwest of town, all private-use; two remain in the federal record today. No public airport has ever existed here, no airway crossed the township, no barnstormer is documented on its ground, and the single aviation event a primary record documents is a 1988 takeoff accident at one of the strips. This section prints the positive at its true size and the negatives at theirs, with the searches named, so the smallness is a finding and not an omission.
The township's aviation record at its true size
1988–2026 · THE POSITIVE, STATED FIRST
Three private fields, and nothing else, is the whole of it: Peterson Ultralight Flightpark (FAA identifier 36IN), one mile west of town, activated April 1990 and current in the federal record; Stewarts Green Acres Airport (IN38)…
Peterson Ultralight Flightpark — 36IN
ACTIVATED APRIL 1990 · CURRENT
The township's first field of record is an ultralight flightpark a mile west of town. The FAA record (as republished by AirNav, FAA information effective 17 April 2025) prints: identifier 36IN; position 41.5362° N, 86.4439° W…
Stewarts Green Acres Airport — IN38
ACTIVATED JUNE 1992 · CURRENT
The township's second strip is the larger of the two survivors: the FAA record (AirNav republication, FAA information effective 22 January 2026) prints identifier IN38; position 41.5453° N, 86.4528° W (estimated), elevation 725…
Dillon Airport — 9II3: the strip the directories forgot to close
WITHDRAWN BY NOVEMBER 2010 · CONFLICT C110
The township's third strip survives only in stale mirrors, and the disagreement prints whole. The directory record (Pilot Getaways, flightdistancescalculator, airportsbase, airports4xp) still carries "Dillon Airport, 9II3, North…
First Flight: Checked and Not Found
1910s–1930s · NO FLIGHT DOCUMENTED ON THIS GROUND
No exhibition flight, barnstormer appearance, or airplane landing at North Liberty or in Liberty Township was found in any record searched — the searches are named in the note, and they cover the barnstorming vocabulary against…
Airmail: the airway passed north of the township
1920s–1930s · TESTED NEGATIVE FOR THIS GROUND
No contract airmail route served this ground, and no Department of Commerce intermediate or emergency field stood in Liberty Township. The Chicago–New York airway crossed St. Joseph County on an east–west line through South Bend…
The war years and the famous landings: two more negatives
1941–1945 AND ALL ERAS · AT POINTER SIZE FOR WHAT WENT ELSEWHERE
No Second World War training use, auxiliary or outlying field, or Civil Air Patrol activity in Liberty Township was found in any record searched: Freeman's compilation lists northern Indiana's two Navy outlying fields — Converse…
The accident of record: CHI88LA115, 22 May 1988
THE TOWNSHIP'S ONE DOCUMENTED AVIATION EVENT
On Sunday, 22 May 1988, a Cessna 172, registration N5848A, departed a grass strip at North Liberty and did not climb out. The National Transportation Safety Board's record (number CHI88LA115, narrative as republished from the…
Today: two strips, no heliport, and the fields around
AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
The township's present aviation state is the frame's, current: Peterson (36IN, FAA effective April 2025) and Stewarts Green Acres (IN38, FAA effective January 2026) both stand in the current federal record as private, turf…