Northwoods Airport
72MI · Watersmeet, Michigan · Gogebic County · map
Northwoods Airport is a private airport, 5 miles west of Watersmeet, Michigan, 1,642 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,000 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 72MI
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,642 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Parking
- hangar
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: VASI, two boxes on the left, trees 144 ft high 1,500 ft from the end
- Runway 27: VASI, two boxes on the left, trees 88 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Watersmeet from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Watersmeet, Michigan: 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 Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Deer and waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Prior permission required.
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.