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Big Falls Municipal

7Y9 · Big Falls, Minnesota · Koochiching County · map

Big Falls Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Big Falls, 3 miles northeast of Big Falls, Minnesota, 1,233 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 2,850 feet of grass.

The airport

Codes: FAA 7Y9
Kind: Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: City of Big Falls
Elevation: 1,233 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights sunset to sunrise
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 3E
In the FAA's files since: January 1951

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
03/21	2,850 × 100 ft	Grass, fair
11/29	2,602 × 200 ft	Grass, fair	Non-standard lights

Runway 03: trees 54 ft high 581 ft from the end
Runway 21: threshold displaced 816 ft, trees 47 ft high 581 ft from the end
Runway 11: trees 48 ft high 481 ft from the end
Runway 29: trees 93 ft high 1,751 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Big Falls from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Big Falls, MN as the owner's town.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

1985-07-19CHI85LA299 · Piper Pa-28-140 N5279S · accident · no injuries

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

Littlefork Muni/Hanover Airport 13Y · 14 nm northeast Bigfork Municipal FOZ · 25 nm south Falls Intl/Einarson Field INL · 26 nm northeast Northome Municipal 43Y · 27 nm southwest International Falls 09I · 29 nm northeast West Wind Airport MN23 · 17 nm northeast · private International Falls Memorial Heliport MN83 · 27 nm northeast · private Northern Itasca Health Care Center Heliport 1MN3 · 28 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to spacing.
Yellow cones.
Yellow cones.
Yellow cones.
Yellow cones.
Ultralight traffic on and in the 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.