Backus Municipal
7Y3 · Backus, Minnesota · Cass County · map
Backus Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Backus, 1 mile northeast of Backus, Minnesota, 1,353 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 3,585 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 7Y3
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Backus
- Elevation
- 1,353 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, car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1941
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 3,585 × 135 ft | Grass, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 15: trees 71 ft high 177 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 51 ft high 997 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Backus from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Backus, Minnesota: 3 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 0 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
- Ultralight activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate non-standard low-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 33 out of service indefinitely.
- Fuel available H24 via credit card.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to spacing.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Sand showing through grass.
- Nmrs prim surface penetrations.
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.