Tower Municipal
12D · Tower, Minnesota · St Louis County · map
Tower Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Tower, 1 mile northwest of Tower, Minnesota, 1,370 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 3,400 feet of asphalt. It has 1 water landing area. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 12D
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Tower
- Elevation
- 1,370 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1959
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14W/32W | 5,000 × 200 ft | Water | |
| 08/26 | 3,400 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, brush 32 ft high 478 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, brush 39 ft high 312 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Duluth and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Tower from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Tower, Minnesota: 21 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 270 feet hill, 2500 feet southeast of airport.
- Activate or incr intst PAPI runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 preset med intst.
- Fuel available H24 self service via credit card.
- Unusable beyond 4 degreess left of centerline.
- Ultralight traffic on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -34C.
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.