Airports · South Dakota · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Prairie Lakes West Heliport

0SD2 · Watertown, South Dakota · Codington County · map

Prairie Lakes West Heliport is a private heliport in Watertown, South Dakota, 1,799 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 0SD2
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,799 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 5E
In the FAA's files since: March 1998

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	40 × 40 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Watertown from the FAA register

68 aircraft are registered to owners in Watertown, South Dakota: 46 piston singles, 6 turboprops, 4 piston twins, 3 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 3 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Lake Area Technical College 9 Aty Aviation INC 7Lake Area Technical Institute 4Fast AG Air LLC 3C P Holdings LLC 2Arbach Enterprises INC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in South Dakota.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Watertown Regional ATY · 1 nm west Clark County 8D7 · 25 nm west The Sigurd Anderson Airport 1D7 · 28 nm northwest Brownlee Heliport 15SD · 2 nm south · private Crooked Lake Lodge Heliport SD20 · 12 nm northeast · private Mogensmark Heliport SD02 · 22 nm northeast · private Stone'S Conservation Airport 17SD · 24 nm east · private Andersen Farms Airport SD19 · 27 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Approach/departure 060 clkws to 080; area marked; wind indicator maintained; comply with far part 91.126 (6)(2); helos monitor Watertown municipal airport the common traffic frequency; obstructions in approach/departure removed.
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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.