Portage Municipal
C47 · Portage, Wisconsin · Columbia County · map
Portage Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Portage, 2 miles northwest of Portage, Wisconsin, 825 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,770 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C47
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Portage
- Elevation
- 825 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1941
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,770 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
| 04/22 | 2,668 × 40 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 98 ft, road 2 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 262 ft, trees 63 ft high 325 ft from the end
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 109 ft, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 22: hill 18 ft high 240 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 120.1 | |
| Approach and departure | 135.45 | |
| Lone Rock Center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.3 |
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Aircraft registered in Portage from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Portage, Wisconsin: 11 piston singles, 2 business jets. 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 Wisconsin.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Ext 104.
- Fuel available H24 via credit card.
- Runway not plowed durg winter, cfm condition with amgr.
- Medium-intensity runway lights non-standard. Runway 18 first 100 feet not lighted; runway 36 first 193 feet not lighted.
- 40 feet trees 40 feet from runway end; 100 feet L.
- 2 feet road at runway end; 170 feet R; 24 feet trees 25 feet from runway end, 75 L.
- 6 feet trrn at threshold; 90 feet L.
- 14 feet road 42 feet from runway end; 28 feet pole 30 feet from runway end, 125 feet L.
- Markings faded.
- Markings faded.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
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.