Riverside Seaplane Base
ME85 · Dover Foxcroft, Maine · Piscataquis County · map
Riverside Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base in Dover Foxcroft, Maine, 342 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 ME85
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 342 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to November, Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Montreal sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 19W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1985
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09W/27W | 3,600 × 300 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: Greenville Municipal (21 nm northwest), Pittsfield Municipal (26 nm south), Bangor International (28 nm southeast), Dewitt Fld/Old Town Municipal (28 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Dexter Regional (11 nm south), Greenville Municipal (21 nm northwest), Griffin Field (22 nm southeast), Pittsfield Municipal (26 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 Maine · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR use only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Dover Foxcroft from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Dover Foxcroft, Maine: 2 piston singles. 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.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Maine.
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 Dover Foxcroft 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Maine 529 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Maine 66 landing places
- Maine 1,426 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ME85.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.