Wild Rice Lake Seaplane Base
MN35 · Duluth, Minnesota · St Louis County · map
Wild Rice Lake Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 9 miles northwest of Duluth, Minnesota, 1,380 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 MN35
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,380 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to October, every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1962
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL/WAY | 6,000 × 6,000 ft | Water |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Also here
- beach gear
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Duluth International (4 nm south), Richard I Bong Airport (13 nm south), Cloquet/Carlton County (18 nm southwest), Richard B Helgeson Airport (19 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Duluth International (4 nm south), Sky Harbor Airport (12 nm southeast), Richard I Bong Airport (13 nm south), Cloquet/Carlton County (18 nm southwest).
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 Minnesota · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Traffic ptn to be compatible with Duluth municipal.
- 724-6868 office.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Duluth from the FAA register
584 aircraft are registered to owners in Duluth, Minnesota: 488 piston singles, 85 business jets, 6 helicopters, 4 piston twins, 1 turboprop. 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 Minnesota.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Duluth, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
- Hangar 10 Aero LLC Hangar 10 Aero is a supplier of parts and materials for Hatz Bantam light sport biplanes, serving aircraft builders.
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Ascent Aviation INC 10 aircraft · Duluth, 4 miles away Ascent Aviation is a Part 141 flight school based in Duluth, Minnesota, partnered with Lake Superior College.
- Lake Superior College 3 aircraft · Duluth, 4 miles away Lake Superior College is a public college in Duluth, Minnesota, part of the Minnesota State system.
- Superior Flying Services LLC 5 aircraft · Superior, 15 miles away Superior Flying Services is a flight school and FBO based in Superior, Wisconsin.
Charter operators and airlines based in Duluth:
- Lake Superior Helicopters, LLC 4 aircraft on the certificate Lake Superior Helicopters operates helicopter tours, flight training, and private charter services from Duluth, Minnesota.
Repair stations in Duluth:
- Cirrus Design Corporation
- Global Aviation Tech Services INC Global Aviation Tech Services Inc is an FAA- and EASA-approved repair station specializing in testing, overhauling, and recertifying aircraft interior and exterior lighting system components and electrical/electronic accessories.
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 Duluth 584 aircraft · 488 piston singles, 85 business jets, 6 helicopters
- Cirrus Design CORP 448 aircraft in town
- Ascent Aviation INC 6 aircraft in town
- Lake Superior Helicopters LLC 5 aircraft in town
- Salter 11X LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Hangar 10 Aero LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Lake Superior Helicopters, LLC 4 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Ascent Aviation INC 10 aircraft · flight school
- Lake Superior College 3 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Superior Flying Services LLC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Cirrus Design Corporation · repair station
- Global Aviation Tech Services INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Minnesota 1,542 since 1982 · 207 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Minnesota 146 landing places
- Minnesota 6,936 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MN35.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.