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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- hangars
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Eagle River Union Airport (21 nm south), Lakeland/Noble F Lee Memorial Field (29 nm southwest), Gogebic/Iron County (38 nm northwest), Rhinelander/Oneida County (40 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Kings Land O' Lakes Airport (8 nm south), Eagle River Union Airport (21 nm south), Manitowish Waters Airport (27 nm west), Lakeland/Noble F Lee Memorial Field (29 nm southwest).
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
- Deer and waterfowl on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Prior permission required.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Michigan.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Watersmeet 4 aircraft · 4 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Michigan 2,103 since 1982 · 226 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Michigan 220 landing places
- Michigan 7,224 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/72MI.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 30, 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.