{{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox airport | name = Mettel Field | image = | IATA = CEV | ICAO = KCEV | FAA = CEV | type = Public | owner = Connersville BOAC | operator = | city-served = [[Connersville, Indiana]] | location = <!--if different than above--> | elevation-f = 866 | website = | coordinates = {{coord|39|41|54|N|085|07|52|W|region:US-IN_scale:10000|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = USA Indiana#USA | pushpin_relief = yes | pushpin_mapsize = 200 | pushpin_label = '''CEV''' | pushpin_label_position = left | r1-number = 18/36 | r1-length-f = 6,503 | r1-surface = Asphalt | r2-number = 4/22 | r2-length-f = 2,601 | r2-surface = Turf | stat-year = 2009 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations | stat1-data = 8,772 | stat2-header = Based aircraft | stat2-data = 9 | footnotes = Source: [[Federal Aviation Administration]]<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=CEV|use=PU|own=PU|site=05194.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.</ref> }}
'''Mettel Field''' {{airport codes|CEV<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx | title = Airline and Airport Code Search | publisher = [[International Air Transport Association]] (IATA) | accessdate = November 17, 2012}}</ref>|KCEV|CEV}} is a public [[airport]] three miles north of [[Connersville, Indiana|Connersville]], in [[Fayette County, Indiana]]. It is owned by the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners.<ref name="FAA" /> The [[National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems]] for 2011–2015 [[FAA airport categories|categorized]] it as a ''[[general aviation]]'' facility.
For a short time circa 1951 Lake Central scheduled Bonanzas to Mettel.
==Facilities== Mettel Field covers 444 [[acre]]s (180 [[hectare|ha]]) at an elevation of 866 feet (264 m). It has two runways: 18/36 is 6,503 by 100 feet (1,982 x 30 m) asphalt and 4/22 is 2,601 by 100 feet (793 x 30 m) turf.<ref name="FAA" />
In 2009 the airport had 8,772 aircraft operations, average 24 per day: 96% [[general aviation]], 4% [[air taxi]], and <1% military. Nine aircraft were then based at this airport: 78% single-engine and 22% multi-engine.<ref name="FAA" />
==See also== *[[List of airports in Indiana]]
== References == <references />
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100917131238/http://www.in.gov/indot/images/ConnersvilleMettelField.jpg Aerial image] from [[Indiana DOT]] * [http://msrmaps.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=11&lat=39.6982&lon=-85.1311&w=800&h=1500&lp=---+None+--- Aerial image as of March 1998] from [[USGS]] ''[[The National Map]]'' * {{FAA-procedures|CEV}} * {{US-airport-minor|CEV|CEV|KCEV}}
{{Airports in Indiana|state=collapsed}}
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