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Sunrise Bay Seaplane Base

28MY · Tower, Minnesota · St Louis County · map

Sunrise Bay Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Vermillion Land LLC Attn Peter Hill, 7 miles northwest of Tower, Minnesota, 1,358 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 28MY
Kind
Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
Vermillion Land LLC Attn Peter Hill
Elevation
1,358 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Green Bay sectional
In the FAA's files since
July 2026

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0826N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
08/263,000 × 500 ftWater
  • Runway 08: right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)122.9

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this seaplane base.

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Cook Municipal (15 nm west), Orr Regional (21 nm west), Ely Municipal (22 nm east), Eveleth/Virginia Municipal (30 nm south).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Tower Municipal (6 nm southeast), Cook Municipal (15 nm west), Orr Regional (21 nm west), Ely Municipal (22 nm east).

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 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 seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.

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:

Charter operators and airlines based in Tower:

  • Adventure Air Charters INC 1 aircraft on the certificate Adventure Seaplanes offers seaplane flight training, air tours, and charter services from bases in Minnesota and Florida.

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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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/28MY.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 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.