Chetek Muni/Southworth Airport
Y23 · Chetek, Wisconsin · Barron County · map
Chetek Muni/Southworth Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Chetek, 1 mile southeast of Chetek, Wisconsin, 1,056 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 3,401 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Y23
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Chetek
- Elevation
- 1,056 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1945
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,401 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 1,490 × 120 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 600 ft, tree 45 ft high 475 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 13 ft high 370 ft from the end
- Runway 07: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 191 ft, trees 59 ft high 775 ft from the end
- Runway 25: threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 75 ft high 980 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Y23 and aWOS-3P | 119.05 | |
| Eau Claire Center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.3 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 715-924-1836.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Chetek from the FAA register
36 aircraft are registered to owners in Chetek, Wisconsin: 27 piston singles, 4 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 3 drones, 1 piston twin, 1 glider. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Wisconsin.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 0 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runways 17 and 35; PAPI runways 17 and 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset on low sunset to sunrise; to incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self service fuel available with credit card.
- Hngr 100 feet from runway end, 200 feet L.
- Marked with yellow cones.
- Marked with yellow cones.
- Approach ratio 16:1 to displaced threshold, 59 feet trees 966 feet from displaced threshold, 160 feet R.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 16:1 to displaced threshold, 75 feet trees 1180 feet from displaced threshold, 160 feet R.
- Runway 17/35 may not be plowed for 24 hours aft hvy snowfall or drifting SN.
- Runway 07/25 not plowed for SN, open to ski equiped aircraft.
- Waterfowl on airport late summer months.
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.