Montauk Airport Guide

Montauk Airport is a privately owned, public-use airfield on the far eastern tip of Long Island, New York. It sits on East Lake Drive between Lake Montauk and Block Island Sound, about 6 km from the centre of the Montauk hamlet in the Town of East Hampton. The field covers about 40 acres at 7 feet above sea level.

Perry Duryea Jr. conceived the airport in 1957 to give summer visitors and fishing parties quicker access to the East End. Over the decades it has served charter pilots, private owners and well-known visitors, among them Richard Nixon and Jimmy Buffett. The airport has no scheduled airline service. Blade runs seasonal flights to New York City, and most other traffic is general aviation and air taxi. A federal count for the 12 months to September 2010 recorded 30,361 operations, about 83 a day.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, 6/24, listed at 3,246 feet by 75 feet. A main terminal building, hangars and an automated weather observing system support operations. Landing fees are paid at the terminal from June to September, and a camera-based automated system has collected them the rest of the year since March 2022. Pilots schedule arrivals through FlightBridge and follow published noise abatement procedures.