Airports · Minnesota · airfield · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Jolly Fisherman

M49 · Waubun, Minnesota · Becker County · map

Jolly Fisherman is a public-use airfield, 17 miles east of Waubun, Minnesota, 1,499 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.

The airport

Codes: FAA M49
Kind: Airfield · open to the public · privately owned
Elevation: 1,499 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: May to October, every day, daylight hours; unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 5E
In the FAA's files since: March 1983

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
08W/26W	5,000 × 500 ft	Water

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

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Aircraft registered in Waubun from the FAA register

3 aircraft are registered to owners in Waubun, Minnesota: 3 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airfield; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airfield alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airfield NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airfield.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Mahnomen County 3N8 · 18 nm northwest Detroit Lakes/Wething Field DTL · 24 nm southwest Park Rapids Muni/Konshok Field PKD · 24 nm southeast Bagley Municipal 7Y4 · 24 nm north Fosston Muni/Anderson Field FSE · 29 nm north Sky Blue Airfield 6MN0 · 7 nm southeast · private Hoiland Field 5MN2 · 17 nm northeast · private Sky Manor Aero Estates Airport MN86 · 18 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided operations are condd to avoid flight ovr cabins/settlements, no operations east of island.

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.