Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport

ICAO KSAW46.3515°N 87.3959°W1,205 ft / 367 mMedium airport

Sawyer International Airport-2006-USGS — United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport (IATA: MQT, ICAO: KSAW) is a medium airport in Gwinn, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1999. It has one runway, 9,072 ft (2,765 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 112 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1999–1999

1999

OpenedMarquette Sawyer Regional Airport opens.

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

01/19009° / 189° · LIT

LENGTH9,072 ft2,765 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025

85K

90K

101K

106K

117K

53K

102K

84K

89K

112K

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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Connection482 km300 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · American Eagle488 km303 mi DTWDetroit Metropolitan Wayne County AirportUnited States · Delta Connection561 km349 mi

Cargo2

MKEGeneral Mitchell International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express381 km237 mi LANCapital Region International AirportUnited States · Ameriflight455 km283 mi

Most destinationsDelta Connection 2American Eagle 1FedEx Express 1Ameriflight 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MQT. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport” (revision of 24 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers112K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,765of 3,974 · #398 North America · #266 US Longest runway9,072 ft2,765 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,712of 29,823 · #352 North America · #258 US Elevation1,205 ft367 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,934of 43,341 · =6,486 North America · =5,072 US AgeOpened 19992026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=11,036of 15,079 · =8,652 North America · =8,534 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 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

Radio frequencies

7 channels

AWOSAWOS 3118.375

CNTRMINNEAPOLIS CNTR119.100

CTAFCTAF119.975

GNDGND121.650

RDOGREEN BAY RDO123.600

TWRTWR119.975

UNICUNICOM122.700