Bottle Bay Seaplane Base
ID54 · Sandpoint, Idaho · Bonner County · map
Bottle Bay Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 7 miles east of Sandpoint, Idaho, 2,063 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ID54
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,063 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to October, every day, dawn to dusk
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Great Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1986
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13W/31W | 15,000 × 500 ft | Water |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this seaplane base.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sandpoint Airport (12 nm southwest), Boundary County (16 nm north), Libby Airport (40 nm east), Coeur D'Alene Airport (45 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Sandpoint Airport (12 nm southwest), Boundary County (16 nm north), Libby Airport (40 nm east), Coeur D'Alene Airport (45 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Idaho · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Filed for record purposes only.
- Bay freezes in winter months.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Sandpoint from the FAA register
134 aircraft are registered to owners in Sandpoint, Idaho: 91 piston singles, 19 helicopters, 14 turboprops, 5 piston twins, 4 gliders. Not every one of them is based at this seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Idaho.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- 1S6 Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Sandpoint, 13 miles away 7B Flying Club is a 501(c)(7) non-profit flying club based in Sandpoint, Idaho, formed in 2016.
- 7B Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Sandpoint, 13 miles away 7B Flying Club is a 501(c)(7) non-profit flying club based in Sandpoint, Idaho, formed in 2016.
- Pilot Training Northwest LLC 1 aircraft · Sandpoint, 13 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Sandpoint:
- Aviation Services Unlimited LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate
- Sandpoint Seaplane Service Inc 1 aircraft on the certificate
Repair stations in Sandpoint:
Companies in the same town as this seaplane base, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base
Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Sandpoint 134 aircraft · 91 piston singles, 19 helicopters, 14 turboprops
- Timberline Helicopters INC 18 aircraft in town
- Kodiak Aircraft CO INC 14 aircraft in town
- Sandpoint Aviation LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Sdcc LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Aviation Services Unlimited LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Sandpoint Seaplane Service Inc 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- 1S6 Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- 7B Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Pilot Training Northwest LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Kodiak Aircraft Company INC · repair station
- Tamarack Aerospace Group INC · repair station
- Timberline Helicopters INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Idaho 1,535 since 1982 · 288 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Idaho 129 landing places
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ID54.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.