Roscommon County/Blodgett Memorial
HTL · KHTL · Houghton Lake, Michigan · Roscommon County · map
Roscommon County/Blodgett Memorial is a public-use airport owned by Roscommon County, 5 miles northeast of Houghton Lake, Michigan, 1,150 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Weather right now KHTL · observed 2:53 pm EDT (18:53 UTC), 61 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (200°) at 11 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 10,000 feet
- Temperature 64°F (18°C), dew point 45°F (7°C)
- Altimeter 29.98 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KHTL 061853Z AUTO 20011KT 10SM FEW100 18/07 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP159 T01780072
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HTL · ICAO KHTL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Roscommon County
- Elevation
- 1,150 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Lake Huron sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1945
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 2,200 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the right
- Runway 18: tree 107 ft high 1,815 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 200 ft, brush 6 ft high 20 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Htl and automated weather (ASOS) | 118.05 | |
| Alpena and center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.475 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 989-200-3352.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Houghton Lake from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Houghton Lake, Michigan: 7 piston singles. 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 Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Activate or incr intst runway end identifier lights runway 09 and 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; high-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency. High-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 preset low intst DUSK-2100.
- Unatndd major holidays.
- Closed when snow covd except for ski equipped aircraft.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- 3 feet yellow cones.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp. Approach ratio 3:1 to dthr ovr +6 feet brush, 20 feet dist, 88 feet R.
- Deer, birds, and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 2203 feet above sea level (883 above ground level) tower 4.2 NM southwest 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.