Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport

Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KDLL FAA LID: DLL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Baraboo, City of Wisconsin Dells, Town and Village of Lake Delton
Operator	City of Baraboo
Serves	Baraboo, Wisconsin Dells, Lake Delton
Time zone	CST (UTC−06:00)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC−05:00)
Elevation AMSL	979 ft / 298 m
Coordinates	43°31′19″N 089°46′17″W / 43.52194°N 89.77139°W / 43.52194; -89.77139
Map
DLL Location of airport in Wisconsin Show map of Wisconsin DLL DLL (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 1/19 5,010 1,527 m Asphalt 14/32 2,746 837 m Turf
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2021) 30,000 Based aircraft (2024) 50
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport (ICAO: KDLL, FAA LID: DLL) 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.^[1] 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 312 acres (126 ha) at an elevation of 979 feet (298 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 1/19 is 5,010 by 100 feet (1,527 by 30 m) with an asphalt surface and is equipped with LOC/DME; 14/32 is 2,746 by 100 feet (837 by 30 m) with a turf surface and is closed from November 15 through April 15.^[1]

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 April 9, 2021, the airport had 30,000 aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day: 89% general aviation, 8% military and 3% air taxi.

In March 2024, there were 50 aircraft based at this airport: 43 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 3 jet and 1 glider.^[1]

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

• Cirrus Aircraft, whose first headquarters was located on the airport
• List of airports in Wisconsin

References

External links

• Baraboo–Wisconsin Dells Airport at Wisconsin DOT Airport Directory
• Baraboo–Dells Flight Center, Inc., the airport's fixed-base operator (FBO)
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for DLL
  • AirNav airport information for KDLL
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

This page was last edited on 20 March 2024, at 17:34