Milaca Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport

Airport

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 located two nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of the City of Milaca

Milaca, Minnesota

Milaca is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,946 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mille Lacs County and is situated on the Rum River.-Geography:...

, in Mille Lacs County

Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 22,330 people, 8,638 households, and 6,003 families residing in the county. The population density was 39 people per square mile . There were 10,467 housing units at an average density of 18 per square mile...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, United States

United States

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. It is also known as Milaca Airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Milaca Municipal Airport covers an area of 40 acres (16.2 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 1,100 feet (335 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 16/34 with a turf

Grass

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 surface measuring 2,900 by 150 feet (884 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2008, the airport had 8,000 general aviation

General aviation

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 aircraft operations, an average of 21 per day. At that time there were 27 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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 and 4% ultralight.

External links

• Aerial photo as of 21 April 1991 from USGS The National Map