Marshfield Municipal Airport (Wisconsin)
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Marshfield Municipal Airport is a public airport
located in Marshfield, Wisconsin
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Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
located in Marshfield, Wisconsin
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Marshfield is a city in Marathon and Wood counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the largest city in Wood County. The small portion of the city that extends into Marathon County is part of the Wausau Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 18,800 at the 2000 census. Marshfield is...
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Facilities
- Runway 16/34 5,000 x 100 ft. (1,524 x 30 m), asphalt, SDFSimplified Directional FacilitySimplified Directional Facility or SDF is a localizer-based instrument non-precision approach to an airport, which provides final approach course similar to Instrument Landing System and Localizer Type Directional Aid approaches, although not as precise.The SDF signal is fixed at either 6 or 12...
equipped - Runway 4/22 3,600 x 100 ft. (1,097 x 30 m), asphalt
- There are two non-directional beaconNon-directional beaconA non-directional beacon is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF...
s associated with the airport. Marshfield NDB (MFI), 391 kHz is located on field and Marshfield LOMLocator Outer MarkerA locator outer marker, or LOM, is a navigation aid used as part of an instrument landing system instrument approach for aircraft in the United States and other countries...
(ident DU), 266 kHz, is located at the outer markerMarker beaconA marker beacon is a particular type of VHF radio beacon used in aviation, usually in conjunction with an instrument landing system , to give pilots a means to determine position along an established route to a destination such as a runway...
marking the CALIN intersection and is used as the Initial Approach Fix for the SDFSimplified Directional FacilitySimplified Directional Facility or SDF is a localizer-based instrument non-precision approach to an airport, which provides final approach course similar to Instrument Landing System and Localizer Type Directional Aid approaches, although not as precise.The SDF signal is fixed at either 6 or 12...
procedure on runway 34.