Lake Elmo Airport
21D · St Paul, Minnesota · Washington County · map
Lake Elmo Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Metropolitan Airport Cmsn, 9 miles east of St Paul, Minnesota, 933 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 14/32, is 3,504 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 21D
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Metropolitan Airport Cmsn
- Elevation
- 933 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to October, every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; November to March, every day, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1951
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,504 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 2,496 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 14: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 32: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Clearance delivery | 118.625 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.2 | |
| 21D AWOS-3 | 120.075 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 651-779-5949.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in St Paul from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in St Paul, Minnesota: 9 piston singles, 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 1 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
- Ultralight operations prohibited.
- Activate or incr intst runway end identifier lights runway 14 and 32; PAPI runway 14 and 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 preset low intst.
- Adnl lighted WIND-T.
- Fuel available H24 self service via credit card.
- Calm wind runway.
- Voluntary noise abatement procedures in effect. See airport website for more information.
- Deer, birds, and wildlife 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.