Michigan City Municipal Airport sits at the intersection of Lake Michigan’s south shore and some of the best destination flying in the Midwest — here’s why it’s the right home base for South Shore Flyers.

Picking the right first airplane for South Shore Flyers means balancing capability, cost, safety record, and the practical realities of a 4,100-foot runway on the south shore of Lake Michigan.

South Shore Flyers is a new equity-sharing flying club forming at KMGC — Michigan City Municipal Airport — built to give Northwest Indiana pilots an affordable, serious path to aircraft ownership and real cross-country flying.

Owning a share of an airplane is fundamentally different from renting one — here’s what member life at South Shore Flyers actually looks like, from scheduling and maintenance days to fly-outs and safety meetings.