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Bowstring Airport

9Y0 · Bowstring, Minnesota · Itasca County · map

Bowstring Airport is a public-use airport owned by Itasca County, 2 miles northwest of Bowstring, Minnesota, 1,372 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 2,565 feet of grass.

The airport

Codes: FAA 9Y0
Kind: Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: Itasca County
Elevation: 1,372 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 3E
In the FAA's files since: July 1961

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
07/25	2,565 × 150 ft	Grass, good

Runway 07: trees 108 ft high 1,720 ft from the end
Runway 25: brush 73 ft high 117 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Bowstring from the FAA register

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

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

2015-11-13GAA16CA050 · Cessna 182Q N717AT · 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

Bigfork Municipal FOZ · 16 nm northeast Northome Municipal 43Y · 25 nm northwest Grand Rapids/Itasca County-Gordon Newstrom Field GPZ · 26 nm southeast Remer Municipal 52Y · 29 nm south Little Sand 22MN · 8 nm northwest · private Cutfoot Sioux 06MN · 9 nm west · private Essentia Health Deer River Heliport MN54 · 13 nm south · private Northern Itasca Health Care Center Heliport 1MN3 · 14 nm northeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Lee engstrom.
Marked with yellow cones.
Yellow cones.
Deer 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.