6Y8

Welke Airport

FAA 6Y845.7205°N 85.5189°W664 ft / 202 mSmall airport
On the map

Welke Airport (FAA: 6Y8) is a small airport in Beaver Island, Michigan, United States. It opened in Dec 1968. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,500 ft (1,067 m).

Timeline

1 event · 1968–1968
DEC 1968
OpenedWelke Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17/35173° / 353°
LENGTH3,500 ft1,067 mWIDTH140 ft43 mSURFACEGrass
09/27089° / 269°
LENGTH2,512 ft766 mWIDTH30 ft9 mSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from 6Y8. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Welke Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

1 airline · destinations from 6Y8
Passenger1
—Island Airways2

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from 6Y8. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway3,500 ft1,067 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=12,572of 29,858 · =5,008 North America · =4,193 USElevation664 ft202 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,105of 43,403 · =11,553 North America · =9,597 USAgeOpened 19682026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,887of 15,079 · =4,192 North America · =4,105 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record