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Lily Lake Seaplane Base

12MN · Grand Rapids, Minnesota · Itasca County · map

Lily Lake Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Airways Aviation Center, INC., 2 miles southeast of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, 1,284 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).

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

The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes
FAA 12MN
Kind
Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
Airways Aviation Center, INC.
Elevation
1,284 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Fuel and services
100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
On the chart
Twin Cities sectional
In the FAA's files since
March 2018

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

13W31WN500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
13W/31W1,500 × 200 ftWater

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
100LL avgas, Jet A

Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Grand Rapids/Itasca County-Gordon Newstrom Field (1 nm south), Range Regional (29 nm east), Aitkin Muni/Steve Kurtz Field (41 nm south).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Minnesota · avgas.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Grand Rapids from the FAA register

53 aircraft are registered to owners in Grand Rapids, Minnesota: 46 piston singles, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

State of Minnesota 7Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 2Airways Aviation INC 2

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Minnesota.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

  • Sky Hawk Flying Club 1 aircraft · Grand Rapids, 1 mile away Sky Hawk Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club founded in 1971, based at Omaha/Millard Municipal Airport (KMLE) in Omaha, Nebraska.

Charter operators and airlines based in Grand Rapids:

Repair stations in Grand Rapids:

  • Airways Aviation INC Airways Aviation Center is a fixed-base operator and certified repair station located in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Companies in the same town as this seaplane base, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base

Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.

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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.