Maple Lake Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport

Airport

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 located one nautical mile

Nautical mile

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 (2 km) northeast of the central business district

Central business district

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 of Maple Lake

Maple Lake, Minnesota

Maple Lake is a city in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,059 at the 2010 census.Minnesota State Highway 55 serves as a main route in the city.-History:...

, a city in Wright County

Wright County, Minnesota

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, Minnesota

Minnesota

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, United States

United States

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. It is located on Maple Lake

Maple Lake

Maple Lake can refer to a location in North America:United States* Maple Lake, Minnesota, a small city* Maple Lake Township, Wright County, Minnesota* Maple Lake , Minnesota, a lake* Maple Lake , Minnesota, a lakeCanada...

 and is also known as Maple Lake Municipal Airport & Seaplane Base.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier

Location identifier

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 for the FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

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 and IATA

International Air Transport Association

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, Maple Lake Municipal Airport is assigned MGG by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MGG to Margarima, Papua New Guinea

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).

Facilities and aircraft

Maple Lake Municipal Airport covers an area of 56 acres (22.7 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 1,028 feet (313 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

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 designated 10/28 with a 2,796 x 60 ft (852 x 18 m) asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface. It also has one seaplane landing area designated 4W/22W which measures 8,000 x 2,000 ft (2,438 x 610 m).

For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, the airport had 20,800 aircraft operations, an average of 56 per day: 91% general aviation

General aviation

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, 5% air taxi

Air taxi

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 and 4% military

Military aviation

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. At that time there were 54 aircraft based at this airport: 76% single-engine

Aircraft engine

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, 13% multi-engine and 11% ultralight.