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Cable Union Airport

3CU · Cable, Wisconsin · Bayfield County · map

Cable Union Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Cable, 2 miles southeast of Cable, Wisconsin, 1,360 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 3,709 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).

The airport

Codes: FAA 3CU
Kind: Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: Town of Cable
Elevation: 1,360 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
Fuel: 100LL avgas
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Green Bay sectional
Magnetic variation: 2W
In the FAA's files since: March 1949

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
17/35	3,709 × 75 ft	Asphalt, fair	Medium-intensity lights
08/26	2,194 × 150 ft	Grass, good

Runway 17: threshold displaced 191 ft, 3,519 ft available for landing, trees 40 ft high 240 ft from the end
Runway 35: threshold displaced 563 ft, 3,146 ft available for landing, trees 60 ft high 670 ft from the end
Runway 08: threshold displaced 378 ft, trees 47 ft high 610 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM	122.8
Hayward and center (remote transmitter) Low	126.45

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Aircraft registered in Cable from the FAA register

4 aircraft are registered to owners in Cable, Wisconsin: 4 piston singles. 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 Wisconsin.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

1989-12-09CHI90LA042 · Beech V35 N7988M · accident · no injuries

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

Sawyer County HYR · 13 nm southwest Eau Claire Lakes Airport 5G4 · 14 nm northwest Solon Springs Municipal OLG · 25 nm west North Country SS1 · 25 nm northwest John F Kennedy Memorial ASX · 25 nm northeast Bayfield County Y77 · 25 nm north Round Lake WS24 · 12 nm south · private Little Clam Lake 7WI1 · 15 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Runway 08/26 closed nov 21 - may 1.
Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset to low sunset to sunrise; to incr intst and activate - the common traffic frequency.
And town of drummond and namegagon.
24 hour self service fuel available with credit card.
Runway 08/26 marked with yellow cones.
Approach ratio 20:1 to displaced threshold.
Approach ratio 12:1 to displaced threshold; 40 feet trees 431 feet from dspcld threshold, 220 feet R.
Approach ratio 20:1 to displaced threshold.
Taxiway lights at entrance to taxiway only.
Plug in available. No heating units available to start aircraft.
Runway conditions not reported.
Fqt 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.