Sweetwater Bay Seaplane Base
16WI · Oconto, Wisconsin · Oconto County · map
Sweetwater Bay Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 6 miles northeast of Oconto, Wisconsin, 579 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.
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 16WI
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 579 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL/WAY | 10,000 × 250 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Menominee Regional (13 nm northeast), Door County Cherryland (18 nm east), Green Bay/Austin Straubel International (31 nm southwest), Clintonville Municipal (44 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Oconto/J Douglas Bake Municipal (6 nm southwest), Menominee Regional (13 nm northeast), Door County Cherryland (18 nm east), Carter Airport (25 nm southwest).
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 Wisconsin · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Cfm sts with amgr prior to arrival.
- Approach from the west or northwest over western shoreline; trees up to 85 feet along shoreline.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Oconto from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Oconto, Wisconsin: 14 piston singles, 1 piston twin. 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:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Wisconsin.
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:
- Copper Country Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Oconto, 7 miles away
- Blue Sky Aviation LLC 12 aircraft · Menominee, 15 miles away Blue Sky Aviation is a Part 61 flight school based at Menominee Regional Airport in Menominee, Michigan, serving Northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
- Eagles Flying Club 2 aircraft · Menominee, 15 miles away
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Oconto 15 aircraft · 14 piston singles, 1 piston twins
- M Star Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Letourneau Plastics INC 2 aircraft in town
- Copper Country Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Blue Sky Aviation LLC 12 aircraft · flight school
- Eagles Flying Club 2 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Wisconsin 1,619 since 1982 · 225 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Wisconsin 123 landing places
- Wisconsin 6,164 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/16WI.json.
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 28, 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.