Shell Lake Municipal Airport

Shell Lake Municipal Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KSSQ – FAA LID: SSQ
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner City of Shell Lake
Serves Shell Lake, Wisconsin
Elevation AMSL 1,233 ft / 376 m
Coordinates 45°43′53″N 091°55′14″W / 45.73139°N 91.92056°W / 45.73139; -91.92056Coordinates: 45°43′53″N 091°55′14″W / 45.73139°N 91.92056°W / 45.73139; -91.92056
Map
SSQ

Location of airport in Wisconsin

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 3,711 1,131 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2015) 12,600
Based aircraft (2016) 15

Shell Lake Municipal Airport (ICAO: KSSQ, FAA LID: SSQ) is a city owned public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district of Shell Lake, a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SSQ by the FAA[1] but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned SSQ to La Sarre Airport in La Sarre, Quebec, Canada).[3] The airport's ICAO identifier is KSSQ.[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Shell Lake Municipal Airport covers an area of 132 acres (53 ha) at an elevation of 1,233 feet (376 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,711 by 75 feet (1,131 x 23 m), with approved GPS approaches..[1]

For the 12-month period ending September 15, 2015, the airport had 12,600 aircraft operations, an average of 35 per day: 96% general aviation, 4% air taxi, and <1% military. In 2016, there were 15 aircraft based at this airport: all 15 single-engine. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 FAA Airport Master Record for SSQ (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Shell Lake Municipal Airport (ICAO: KSSQ, FAA: SSQ, IATA: none)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ "La Sarre Airport, QC, Canada (IATA: SSQ)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Shell Lake Municipal – SSQ (KSSQ)". National Flight Data Center. Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved July 11, 2012. External link in |work= (help)

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