Silver Lake Airport
MI71 · Mears, Michigan · Oceana County · map
Silver Lake Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Mears, Michigan, 772 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,660 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MI71
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 772 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1991
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,660 × 400 ft | Grass |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Mason County (19 nm north), Fremont Municipal (23 nm southeast), Muskegon County (30 nm south), Grand Haven Memorial Airpark (38 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Oceana County (5 nm east), Mason County (19 nm north), Fremont Municipal (23 nm southeast), Muskegon County (30 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 Michigan · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided 20:1 approach surface clnc; 125 feet either side clear from obstructions.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mears from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mears, MI as the owner's town.
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:
- Fremont Glider Club 1 aircraft · Rothbury, 10 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, 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 airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Michigan 2,103 since 1982 · 226 in the last ten years
- Fremont Glider Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Michigan 221 landing places
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MI71.json.
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 27, 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.