Branch County Memorial Airport


Branch County Memorial Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles west of the central business district of Coldwater, a city in Branch County, Michigan, United States. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned OEB by the FAA and no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Branch County Memorial Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 959 feet above mean sea level. It has three runways: 7/25 and 4/22 have asphalt surfaces measuring 5,350 by 75 feet and 3,500 by 75 feet respectively; 16/34 has a turf surface measuring 2,400 by 190 feet. The airport is staffed irregularly.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 12,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 32 per day. At that time there were 22 aircraft based at this airport: 72.7% single-engine, 13.6% multi-engine, 4.5% jet, 4.5% helicopter and 4.5% ultralight.

Transit

The airport is accessible by road from U.S. Highway 12, and is close to M-86 and Interstate 69.