Airports · South Dakota · airport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Vander Wal Airport

SD74 · Pollock, South Dakota · Edmunds County · map

Vander Wal Airport is a private airport, 8 miles northwest of Pollock, South Dakota, 1,955 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,600 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).

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 SD74
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,955 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: 100LL avgas; the services card below
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 10E
In the FAA's files since: July 1989

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
15/33	2,600 × 50 ft	Grass, poor

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: 100LL avgas

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Linton Municipal (15 nm north), Mobridge Municipal (27 nm south), Bismarck Municipal (49 nm north).

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 South Dakota · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

Filed for record purposes only.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Pollock from the FAA register

4 aircraft are registered to owners in Pollock, South Dakota: 3 piston singles, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in South Dakota.

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

Standing Rock Airport Y27 · 12 nm west Herreid Municipal 5T4 · 15 nm southeast Linton Municipal 7L2 · 15 nm north MC Laughlin Municipal 5P2 · 21 nm southwest Mobridge Municipal MBG · 27 nm south Hazelton Municipal 6H8 · 30 nm north Moser Airstrip Airport NA54 · 4 nm southwest · private Standing Rock Hospital Heliport ND21 · 12 nm northwest · private

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Pollock 4 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 1 piston twins

Record

Accidents and incidents in South Dakota 467 since 1982 · 67 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in South Dakota 70 landing places
South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered

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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.