Silver Bay Municipal
BFW · KBFW · Silver Bay, Minnesota · Lake County · map
Silver Bay Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Silver Bay, 7 miles southwest of Silver Bay, Minnesota, 1,089 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 3,200 feet of asphalt.
The FAA lists this airport as closed permanently.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BFW · ICAO KBFW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Silver Bay
- Elevation
- 1,089 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,200 × 75 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 44 ft high 979 ft from the end
- Runway 25: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 33 ft high 918 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Duluth and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 134.55 |
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Aircraft registered in Silver Bay from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Silver Bay, Minnesota: 1 piston single. 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 · 1 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 traffic on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 07 and 25; PAPI runway 07 and 25; medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway closed due to edges contain loose rocks and crumbling; large wdspr cracks; vegetation growing through cracks and joints; markings faded.
- Deer and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- New terminal building available, for keypad entry press 2, 4 together and then press 3.
- Pot holes on apn and tiedown area.
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.