Rice Lake Regional Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Rice Lake Regional Airport
nativename = Carl's Field


IATA = RIE
ICAO = KRPD
FAA = RPD
type = Public
owner-oper = City of Rice Lake
city-served = Rice Lake, Wisconsin
location = Cameron, Wisconsin
elevation-f = 1,109
elevation-m = 338
coordinates = coord|45|25|12|N|091|46|24|W|region:US_type:airport
website = [http://www.ricelakeairport.com/ www.RiceLakeAirport.com]
r1-number = 1/19
r1-length-f = 6,700
r1-length-m = 2,042
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 13/31
r2-length-f = 3,500
r2-length-m = 1,067
r2-surface = Asphalt
stat-year = 2005
stat1-header = Aircraft operations
stat1-data = 27,650
stat2-header = Based aircraft
stat2-data = 38
footnotes = Sources: FAA.FAA-airport|ID=RPD|use=PU|own=PU|site=27527.1*A, effective 2008-07-31] and airport website [http://www.ricelakeairport.com/ Rice Lake Regional Airport] , official website]

Rice Lake Regional Airport airport codes|RIE|KRPD|RPD is a city-owned public-use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southwest of the central business district of Rice Lake, a city in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is situated in the village of Cameron.

Opened in 1995, it was named Carl's Field for Carl Rindlisbacher, the longtime manager of Arrowhead field, one of Rice Lake's previous airports. [ [http://www.ricelakeairport.com/history.asp Rice Lake Airport History] from offical airport website]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned RPD by the FAA and RIE by the IATA. [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/RIE Great Circle Mapper: RIE / KRPD - Rice Lake Regional Airport - Rice Lake, Wisconsin] ]

Facilities and aircraft

Rice Lake Regional Airport covers an area of 750 acres (304 ha) at an elevation of 1,109 feet (338 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 6,700 by 100 feet (2,042 x 30 m) and ILS equipped; 13/31 is 3,500 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).

RICE LAKE (RPD) VOR/DME, 110.0 MHz, is located on field.

Rice Lake Air Center is the fixed base operator.

For the 12-month period ending September 7, 2005, the airport had 27,650 aircraft operations, an average of 75 per day: 90% general aviation, 10% air taxi and <1% military. At that time there were 38 aircraft based at this airport: 68% single-engine, 24% multi-engine and 8% jet.

ee also

*List of airports in Wisconsin

References

External links

* [http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/air/docs/airports/rice-lake.pdf Rice Lake Regional Airport] at Wisconsin DOT Airport Directory
* [http://www.ricelakeair.com/ Rice Lake Air Center] , the airport's fixed base operator
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