Shell Lake Municipal
SSQ · KSSQ · Shell Lake, Wisconsin · Washburn County · map
Shell Lake Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Shell Lake, 1 mile southeast of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, 1,233 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,711 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SSQ · ICAO KSSQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Shell Lake
- Elevation
- 1,233 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,711 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 619 ft, 2,881 ft available for landing, trees 95 ft high 1,080 ft from the end
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 210 ft, 3,500 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Hayward and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.45 |
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Aircraft registered in Shell Lake from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Shell Lake, Wisconsin: 4 piston singles. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Wisconsin.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- (E81) taxiway lights at entrance only.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 preset to low sunset to sunrise; to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 32; PAPI runway 14, 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 14 approach ratio 18:1 to displaced thld; 93 feet trees 1699 feet 400 L.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of of airport.
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.