Bed-ah-Wick Field

Bed-ah-Wick Field
IATA: none – ICAO: none – FAA LID: 1WI3
Summary
Airport type	Private
Elevation AMSL	787 ft / 239.9 m
Coordinates	43°50.9988′N 089°7.00695′W / 43.8499800°N 89.11678250°WCoordinates: 43°50.9988′N 089°7.00695′W / 43.8499800°N 89.11678250°W
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 18/36 1,800 549 Turf
Statistics
Operations 2 / year Based A/C 4
Stats for[1]

Bed-ah-Wick Field (FAA LID: 1WI3) is a very small private gravel/turf airport in Princeton, Wisconsin, that single engine prop planes can land.^[2] There is no control tower and no radio. Pilots must either visually guide their plane in for a landing or use the nearest radio to the airport for navigational aids. The airport is for private use and is privately owned. Permission is required prior to landing.The airfield was established May 1958.

Facilities

• Runway 18/36 1,800 x 100 ft. (549 x 30 m) turf with low intensity runway edge lighting.
• Two former east / west runways, 1,300 and 1,700 ft (400 and 520 m) long, are currently used as taxiways.

Incidents

• A home-built Kraetzner Sky-Buggy crashed in a marsh north of the field following take-off August 20, 1995.^[3]
• A Piper PA-28-140 was substantially damaged when it crash landed in a marsh north of the field on September 8, 1994. One minor injury.^[4]

External links

• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for 1WI3
  • AirNav airport information for 1WI3
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for 1WI3

Notes

1. http://www.gcr1.com/5010Web/airport.cfm?Site=1WI3
2. http://www.dot.state.wi.us/travel/air/docs/trans4abc.pdf
3. http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001207X04217&key=1
4. http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001206X02202&key=1