Marquette/Sawyer International Airport

Marquette/Sawyer International Airport (KSAW) is a medium airport in Gwinn, MI. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KSAW or IATA code MQT. It sits in North America.

Marquette/Sawyer International Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 9,072 ft (2,765 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Marquette/Sawyer International Airport lies at 1,221 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Detroit. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 9 departing and 46 arriving private-jet legs at KSAW across the next six months of operator inventory. 3 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KSAW are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport — previously named Sawyer International Airport — is a county-owned, public-use airport in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. It is located 17 nautical miles south of the central business district of the city of Marquette. 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 non-hub primary commercial service facility.