Ness Landing Seaplane Base
3MI9 · Rapid River, Michigan · Delta County · map
Ness Landing Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 2 miles northeast of Rapid River, Michigan, 580 feet above sea level. It has 3 water landing areas. It has fuel (car gas (mogas)).
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 3MI9
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 580 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- car gas (mogas); the services card below
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1994
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11W/29W | 5,000 × 150 ft | Water | |
| 14W/32W | 5,000 × 200 ft | Water | |
| 04W/22W | 3,000 × 150 ft | Water |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- car gas (mogas)
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Delta County (12 nm southwest), Marquette Sawyer Regional (32 nm northwest), Schoolcraft County (34 nm east), Ford Airport (48 nm west).
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 Michigan · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 20:1 slope should be provided. Ref far 91.115 right of way rules water operations.
- Caution watch for birds and floating objects. Use caution before Landing.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Rapid River from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Rapid River, Michigan: 6 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 Michigan.
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:
- Bay de Noc Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Escanaba, 14 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.
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Rapid River 6 aircraft · 6 piston singles
- Bay de Noc Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Michigan 2,103 since 1982 · 226 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 5 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Michigan 220 landing places
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3MI9.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.