Beach Airport
20U · Beach, North Dakota · Golden Valley County · map
Beach Airport is a public-use airport owned by Golden Valley CO Arpt Auth., 1 mile ene of Beach, North Dakota, 2,756 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 4,200 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 13 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,630 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 20U
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Golden Valley CO Arpt Auth.
- Elevation
- 2,756 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- ON CALL, ON CALL, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Billings sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,200 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · UNICOM unatndd. |
| 20U AWOS-3 | 118.175 | |
| Watford City Center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.85 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 701-872-9225.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,630, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Beach from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Beach, North Dakota: 1 turboprop. 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 North Dakota.
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
- Activate PAPI runway 12 and 30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- UNICOM unatndd.
- Amgr - karl davis
- Self service available H24 via credit card.
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.