Converse Airport

IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: 1I8

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Converse BOAC

Location

Converse, Indiana

Elevation AMSL

840 ft / 256 m

Coordinates

40°34′15″N 085°53′30″W / 40.57083°N 85.89167°WCoordinates: 40°34′15″N 085°53′30″W / 40.57083°N 85.89167°W

Map

1I8

Location of airport in Indiana

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
7/25	1,800	549	Asphalt, Concrete

Converse Airport (ICAO: 1I8, FAA LID: 1I8) is a public airport 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Converse, in Miami County, Indiana. The airport was founded in October 1944 as one of 26 satellite airfields for Bunker Hill Naval Air Station. The town of Converse gained control of the field in November 1947 after the Navy abandoned the field when the war ended.

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Airports in Indiana

Primary	Evansville Regional Fort Wayne International Indianapolis International South Bend International

Relief	Clark Griffith–Merrillville Eagle Creek Hendricks County Indianapolis Executive Indianapolis Metropolitan Indianapolis Regional

General	Anderson Arens Columbus Crawfordsville DeKalb County Delaware County Delphi Elkhart Frankfort Freeman French Lick Fulton County Gary/Chicago Goshen Greensburg Greenwood Grissom Huntingburg Huntington Indianapolis Heliport Jasper County Kendallville Kentland Kokomo La Porte Longansport–Cass County Madison Marion Mettel Michigan City Monroe County New Castle–Henry County North Vernon Paoli Perry County Peru Plymouth Porter County Portland Purdue University Putnam Randolph Richmond Salem Shelbyville Sheridan Smith Starke County Steuben County Sullivan County Terre Haute Wabash Warsaw White County

List of airports in Indiana

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