Northbound Seaplane Base
5MN6 · Grand Papids, Minnesota · Itasca County · map
Northbound Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 5 miles south of Grand Papids, Minnesota, 1,273 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 5MN6
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,273 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 2000
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13W/31W | 5,000 × 500 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
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: Grand Rapids/Itasca County-Gordon Newstrom Field (3 nm north), Range Regional (31 nm northeast), Aitkin Muni/Steve Kurtz Field (37 nm south), Eveleth/Virginia Municipal (45 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Grand Rapids/Itasca County-Gordon Newstrom Field (3 nm north), Longville Municipal (30 nm west), Range Regional (31 nm northeast), Isedor Iverson Airport (33 nm south).
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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided clear 20:1 approaches and reference FAR91.115 right of way rules, water operations.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Grand Papids from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Grand Papids, MN as the owner's town.
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:
- Sky Hawk Flying Club 1 aircraft · Grand Rapids, 4 miles away Sky Hawk Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club founded in 1971, based at Omaha/Millard Municipal Airport (KMLE) in Omaha, Nebraska.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Minnesota 1,542 since 1982 · 207 in the last ten years
- Sky Hawk Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Minnesota 146 landing places
- Minnesota 6,936 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5MN6.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 28, 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.