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 |
Timezone: | CST |
Summer: | CDT |
Elevation-F: | 1,109 |
Elevation-M: | 338 |
Coordinates: | 45.42°N -91.7733°W |
Website: | www.RiceLakeAirport.com |
Pushpin Map: | USA Wisconsin#USA |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Wisconsin |
Pushpin Label: | RIE |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
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 |
Stat1-Header: | Aircraft operations (2023) |
Stat1-Data: | 27,650 |
Stat2-Header: | Based aircraft (2024) |
Stat2-Data: | 26 |
Footnotes: | Sources: FAA.[1] and airport website[2] |
Rice Lake Regional Airport 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. 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 local general aviation facility.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
Rice Lake Regional Airport covers an area of 750acres at an elevation of 1,109 feet (338 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: the primary runway 1/19 is 6,700 by 100 feet (2,042 x 30 m) and ILS equipped; the crosswind runway 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 July 3, 2023, the airport had 27,650 aircraft operations, an average of 76 per day: 90% general aviation, 10% air taxi and less than 1% military. In June 2024, there were 26 aircraft based at this airport: 21 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, 1 jet and 2 helicopter.