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West Bend Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use aerodrome on the eastern edge of West Bend, Wisconsin, three nautical miles from the town centre, offering two lit asphalt runways beneath a mix of Class G and Class E airspace. It has served the area since the late 1920s, growing from a grass strip into a busy general aviation reliever field with an active FBO, based aircraft, and a steady flow of training and touring traffic.
West Bend Municipal Airport (KETB) is a city-owned, public-use general aviation airport serving West Bend, Wisconsin, and the surrounding Washington County area. It sits on 430 acres on the east side of the city, close to State Highway 33, and functions as a regional reliever airport within the FAA's national airport system. The field is home to a resident FBO, West Bend Air, and sees a healthy mix of general aviation, air taxi and military movements, making it a straightforward and useful VFR destination for pilots exploring the area north-west of Milwaukee.
The airport lies directly beneath Class G airspace, with a surrounding ring of Class E airspace roughly 14 miles in diameter beginning at 700 feet above ground level and extending up to, but not including, Class A airspace at 18,000 feet MSL. Milwaukee's Class C airspace outer ring begins about 17 miles south-southeast of the field. Waukesha County Airport's Class D airspace lies approximately 18 miles south-southwest, and Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport's Class D airspace about 14 miles to the south. The nearest special use airspace is Restricted Area R-6903, overlying the Minnow Military Operations Area some 20 miles east and northeast of the field over Lake Michigan. Overall air traffic in the vicinity is controlled by Chicago Center, with Milwaukee Approach and Departure available locally.
West Bend Municipal has two paved runways, both hard-surfaced and lit. Runway 13/31 is the longer of the pair, at 4,485 feet (runway 13) and 4,484 feet (runway 31). Runway 6/24 measures 3,882 feet in both directions. Both runways are asphalt with runway lighting.
The airport's common traffic advisory frequency and UNICOM, staffed by West Bend Air, is 122.8 MHz. An AWOS-3 automated weather observing system broadcasts on 120.0 MHz. Milwaukee Approach and Departure can be contacted on 125.35 MHz, and IFR clearance delivery is available on 124.75 MHz. A VOR is sited on the field, identified as BJB on 109.8 MHz, with two non-directional beacons to the west: JUNEAU (UNU) on 344 kHz and ROCK RIVER (RYV) on 371 kHz. There is no ILS at the airport.
Both runways at West Bend Municipal use left-hand traffic patterns. Runway 13/31 is equipped with a four-box VASI on the left side of both runways, along with runway end identifier lights at both ends; runway lights on this runway pair can be pilot-controlled via the CTAF. Runway 6/24 has no visual glideslope indicator or runway end identifier lights. A helipad (H1), also with left traffic and blue perimeter lighting, is located on the field.
The airport lies on the east side of the City of West Bend, adjacent to State Highway 33, about three nautical miles east of the town's central business district, which makes the highway and the built-up area of West Bend useful visual references when inbound to the field.
The airport traces its origins to 1928, when it was established as a grass landing field serving West Bend. The runways remained unpaved grass strips until the 1950s, when they were first paved, setting the field on course to become the paved, lit facility in use today. It has since grown into a recognised general aviation reliever airport within the FAA's airport system.
West Bend Municipal remains an active general aviation airport with no scheduled airline service. West Bend Air operates the on-field FBO, supplying 100 octane low-lead and Jet-A fuel, along with rental aircraft, a pilot's lounge, a weather office and a gift shop. Hangar space, including T-hangars and commercial hangars, plus tie-down areas, is available on the field. As of 2024 the airport had 88 based aircraft, comprising single-engine and multi-engine aeroplanes, a jet, helicopters and military types, and recorded around 46,000 aircraft operations a year, split between general aviation, military and air taxi traffic.
