Fort Atkinson Municipal
61C · Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin · Jefferson County · map
Fort Atkinson Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Ft. Atkinson, 3 miles northeast of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, 800 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 3,800 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 24 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 10,900 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 61C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Ft. Atkinson
- Elevation
- 800 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, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 3,800 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 21: PAPI, two lights on the left, brush 10 ft high 220 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.1 | |
| Lone Rock Center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.3 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 10,900, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Fort Atkinson from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: 18 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter, 1 drone. 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 · 5 since 1982, 1 fatal
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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Constr prior to 1959
- Runway 03/21 pilots requested to fly runway heading and climb to 1400 feet above sea level before turning east.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 preset to low sunset to sunrise; to incr intst and activate PAPI runway 03 and 21; medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self service fuel available with credit card.
- 10 feet brush 30 feet from threshold; 100 feet L.
- 10 feet brush 100 feet from threshold; 115 feet R.
- Ultralight actvty on and in 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.