Leaders Clear Lake Airport
8Y6 · Clear Lake, Minnesota · Sherburne County · map
Leaders Clear Lake Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles east of Clear Lake, Minnesota, 990 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,000 feet of asphalt and grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8Y6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 990 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt and grass, poor |
- Runway 18: trees 59 ft high 698 ft from the end
- Runway 36: trees 32 ft high 202 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Clear Lake from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Clear Lake, Minnesota: 24 piston singles, 3 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 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
- Runway 18/36 and displaced thresholds marked with yellow cones.
- Runway 18: trees +50, 750 from end, 135 R, 20:1 to displ thld
- +20 feet trees, 463 feet dist, 159 feet L, 16:1 to dthr.
- Surface uneven and rough with loose gravel.
- Svrl bare spots alg the cntr of the runway.
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.