Park River - W C Skjerven Field
Y37 · Park River, North Dakota · Walsh County · map
Park River - W C Skjerven Field is a public-use airport owned by Park River Airport Auth, 1 mile west of Park River, North Dakota, 1,104 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 3,100 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 8,750 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Y37
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Park River Airport Auth
- Elevation
- 1,104 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1959
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,100 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 2,499 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 103 ft high 2,100 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.1 | |
| Grand Forks Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.15 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 8,750, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Park River from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Park River, North Dakota: 10 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 North Dakota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 sunset to sunrise - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 13 and 31 operates continuously.
- Also +23 feet power line 580 feet from threshold on centerline approach ratio 25:1.
- Runway 04/22 closed winter months due to lack of snow removal.
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.