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Cub Cove Seaplane Base

48VT · Colchester, Vermont · Chittenden County · map

Cub Cove Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 6 miles west of Colchester, Vermont, 95 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 48VT
Kind
Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
95 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
May to October, every day, dawn to dusk
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Montreal sectional
In the FAA's files since
April 2009

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

05W23WN1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
05W/23W4,000 × 300 ftWater

Radio frequencies

UNICOM122.8

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: Patrick Leahy Burlington International (6 nm southeast), Plattsburgh International (12 nm northwest), Franklin County State (24 nm north), Morrisville-Stowe State Airport (26 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Patrick Leahy Burlington International (6 nm southeast), Plattsburgh International (12 nm northwest), Franklin County State (24 nm north), Morrisville-Stowe State Airport (26 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 Vermont · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

  • Provided pvt use only and all traffic pattern conflicts are resolved with VT57.
  • 200 feet hill 400 feet northwest of landing area.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Colchester from the FAA register

8 aircraft are registered to owners in Colchester, Vermont: 8 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 Vermont.

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:

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/48VT.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.