Scotts Seaplane Base

is a public use seaplane base located in the community of Crane Lake, in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It is privately owned by Darrell Scott and is also known at Scott's Seaplane Base. [ [http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/avoffice/ops/airdir/pdf/cranelakespb.pdf Crane Lake: Scott's Seaplane Base (CDD)] at Minnesota DOT airport directory]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Scotts Seaplane Base is assigned CDD by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KCDD Great Circle Mapper: KCDD - Crane Lake, Minnesota (Scotts Seaplane Base)] ] (which assigned CDD to Cauquira, Honduras [ [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/CDD Great Circle Mapper: CDD - Cauquira, Honduras] ] ).

Facilities and aircraft

Scotts Seaplane Base covers an area of 5 acres (2 ha) at an elevation of 1,119 feet (341 m) above mean sea level. It has two seaplane landing areas: 7W/25W is 8,000 x 1,000 feet (2,438 x 305 m) and 16W/34W is 7,000 x 1,000 feet (2,134 x 305 m). For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2003, the airport had 8,000 aircraft operations, an average of 21 per day: 61% general aviation and 39% air taxi.

References

External links

* [http://www.visitcranelake.com/resorts/crnlkb15.html Scott's Resort & Seaplane Base]
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