Rice Lake Regional Airport is a city owned public use
airport
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located five nautical miles (9 km) southwest of the
central business district of
Rice Lake, a city in
Barron County
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History
The county was created in 1859 ...
,
Wisconsin
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,
United States
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.
The airport is situated in the village of
Cameron.
It is included in the
Federal Aviation Administration
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(FAA)
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is
categorized as a local
general aviation
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facility.
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.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
location identifier
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for the
FAA
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and
IATA, this airport is assigned RPD by the FAA and RIE by the IATA.
Great Circle Mapper: RIE / KRPD - Rice Lake Regional Airport - Rice Lake, Wisconsin
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Facilities and aircraft
Rice Lake Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation
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of 1,109 feet (338 m) above mean sea level
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. It has two asphalt paved runway
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s: 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
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Science, technology and medicine
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/ DME, 110.0 MHz, is located on field.
Rice Lake Air Center is the fixed-base operator
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.
For the 12-month period ending July 23, 2020, the airport had 27,650 aircraft operations, an average of 76 per day: 90% general aviation
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, 10% air taxi
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and less than 1% military
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. In June 2023, there were 34 aircraft based at this airport: 27 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 2 jet and 2 helicopter.
Cargo
See also
*List of airports in Wisconsin
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References
External links
Rice Lake Regional Airport
at Wisconsin DOT
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Airport Directory
Rice Lake Air Center
the airport's fixed-base operator
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