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Lakeland Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
1,629 ft / 497 m

Location
  
Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin

18/36
  
5,150

Lakeland Airport

Owner
  
Lakeland Airport Commission

Serves
  
Minocqua / Woodruff, Wisconsin

Lakeland Airport (IATA: ARV, ICAO: KARV, FAA LID: ARV), also known as Noble F. Lee Memorial Field, is a public airport near Arbor Vitae, a town in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district of Minocqua and northwest of Woodruff, both cities in Oneida County, just south of the Vilas County border. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility. It is owned by the Lakeland Airport Commission.

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Facilities and aircraft

Lakeland Airport covers an area of 520 acres (210 ha) at an elevation of 1,629 feet (497 m) above mean sea level. The airport contains two asphalt paved runways: 18/36 measuring 5,150 x 100 ft (1,570 x 30 m) with approved LOC and GPS approaches and 10/28 measuring 3,602 x 75 ft (1,098 x 23 m) with approved GPS and NDB approaches. The Arbor Vitae NDB navaid, (ARV) frequency 221 kHz, is located on the field.

For the 12-month period ending August 6, 2014, the airport had 27,190 aircraft operations, an average of 74 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi and <1% military. In March 2017, there were 21 aircraft based at this airport: 19 single-engine and 2 multi-engine.

Incidents

  • On May 25, 2003, at 1754 central daylight time, a Piper PA-31P Pressurized Navajo crashed and was destroyed by fire after takeoff from the airport's Runway 36. All four occupants were killed.
  • On September 12, 2008, a Cirrus SR22 arriving from General Mitchell International Airport crashed about a half a mile southwest of the airport. All three people on board died.
  • References

    Lakeland Airport Wikipedia