Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport Explained

Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport
Icao:KDLL
Faa:DLL
Type:Public
Owner:City of Baraboo, City of Wisconsin Dells, Town and Village of Lake Delton
Operator:City of Baraboo
City-Served:Baraboo, Wisconsin Dells, Lake Delton
Timezone:CST
Summer:CDT
Elevation-F:979
Elevation-M:298
Coordinates:43.5219°N -89.7714°W
Pushpin Map:USA Wisconsin#USA
Pushpin Relief:yes
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Wisconsin
Pushpin Label:DLL
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:1/19
R1-Length-F:5,010
R1-Length-M:50100NaN0
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:14/32
R2-Length-F:2,746
R2-Length-M:2746feet
R2-Surface:Turf
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations (2024)
Stat1-Data:30,000
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft (2024)
Stat2-Data:51
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Baraboo, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The airport is located between Baraboo and Lake Delton, Wisconsin, on US 12, and is adjacent to the Ho-Chunk Casino.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility.[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned DLL by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[3] (which assigned DLL to Dillon County Airport in Dillon, South Carolina[4]).

History

It was originally known as Berry's Dells Airport. It was built and owned by Clinton DeWitt Berry in 1928, the proprietor of Berry's Coldwater Canyon Hotel and Golf Course, now part of the Chula Vista Resort. The airport originally comprised 60 acres and was designated on government maps as beacon No. 19. It was also on the Milwaukee-Minneapolis route to the northern airways. Upon announcing the opening of the landing field on May 26, 1928, Berry said, "I look for large numbers of planes from Chicago, St. Louis and other cities to carry visitors to the Dells this summer". Clinton Berry was the uncle of Robert Irwin Berry, owner of Berry Electric Contracting Company in Chicago, Illinois. Robert Berry was the grandfather of Robert Forbis, who used the airfield many times in his Lancair Columbia 300 aircraft.[5]

Facilities and aircraft

Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport covers an area of 312acres at an elevation of 979 feet (298 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 1/19 is 5010by with an asphalt surface and is equipped with LOC/DME; 14/32 is 2746by with a turf surface and is closed from November 15 through April 15.

Dells VORTAC is 1 mile north of the airfield.

Baraboo–Dells Flight Center, Inc., is the fixed-base operator.

For the 12-month period ending May 30, 2024, the airport had 30,000 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 89% general aviation, 8% military and 3% air taxi.

In August 2024, there were 51 aircraft based at this airport: 43 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 4 jet and 1 glider.

Cargo operations

In 2017, aircraft flight tracking showed Freight Runners Express flying their Beechcraft Model 99 aircraft type for Wisconsin Dells cargo operations.

See also

References

  1. , effective August 8, 2024.
  2. Web site: NPIAS Report 2019-2023 Appendix A . . October 12, 2018 . October 3, 2018.
  3. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/KDLL Great Circle Mapper: KDLL – Baraboo Wisconsin Dells Airport – Baraboo, Wisconsin
  4. http://gc.kls2.com/airport/DLL Great Circle Mapper: DLL / KDLC – Dillon County Airport – Dillon, South Carolina
  5. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern newspaper May 26, 1928

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