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Marquette/Sawyer International Airport (KSAW) lies at Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering a single very long instrument runway that makes it an unusually capable field for its size. For the simulator pilot it is a useful waypoint for practising ILS approaches into a quiet regional airport surrounded by the forests and lakes of the Upper Peninsula.
Marquette/Sawyer International Airport, known locally by its identifier SAW and IATA code MQT, serves the Gwinn area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is classed as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, and its single very long hard runway with an ILS approach gives it a capability out of proportion to the surrounding rural landscape, making it an interesting stop for a simulator pilot exploring the region.
The field sits near Gwinn, Michigan, and traffic in the surrounding airspace is worked by Minneapolis Center on 119.1 MHz. Beyond this, no specific class of controlled airspace or neighbouring aerodromes are detailed in the available information.
KSAW has one physical runway, 01/19, a hard-surfaced strip 12,359 feet long. It is lit and equipped with an ILS, making it usable in low-visibility conditions and by larger aircraft than the field's rural setting might suggest.
Pilots can expect the following frequencies at Sawyer: AWOS (AWOS 3) on 118.375 MHz for automated weather; Minneapolis Center on 119.1 MHz; the common traffic advisory frequency on 119.975 MHz, which is also listed as the tower frequency; ground on 121.65 MHz; Green Bay Radio on 123.6 MHz; and UNICOM on 122.7 MHz. The airport has an ILS serving runway 01.
Marquette/Sawyer International Airport is a medium-sized facility with scheduled airline service and is recorded as the home base for one based pilot. Further operational information, including club or training activity, is published on the airport's own website.
