Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota) Explained

Madison Municipal Airport
Iata:XMD
Icao:KMDS
Faa:MDS
Type:Public
Owner:City of Madison
City-Served:Madison, South Dakota
Elevation-F:1,718
Elevation-M:524
Pushpin Map:USA South Dakota#USA
Coordinates:44.0164°N -97.0856°W
Website:CityOfMadisonSD.com/...
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-F:5,000
R1-Length-M:1,524
R1-Surface:Asphalt/concrete
R2-Number:3/21
R2-Length-F:2,380
R2-Length-M:725
R2-Surface:Turf
Stat-Year:2023
Stat1-Header:Aircraft operations (year ending 4/18/2023)
Stat1-Data:37,895
Stat2-Header:Based aircraft
Stat2-Data:57
Footnotes:Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Madison Municipal Airport is a city-owned public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Madison, a city in Lake County, South Dakota, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned MDS by the FAA and XMD by the IATA[3] (which assigned MDS to Middle Caicos Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands[4]).

Facilities and aircraft

Madison Municipal Airport covers an area of 375acres at an elevation of 1,718 feet (524 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 15/33 is 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m) with an asphalt and concrete surface; 3/21 is 2,380 by 200 feet (725 x 61 m) with a turf surface.

For the 12-month period ending April 18, 2023, the airport had 37,895 aircraft operations, an average of 104 per day: 100% general aviation and <1% air taxi. At that time there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 48 single-engine, 5 multi-engine, 2 helicopter, and 2 glider.

See also

References

  1. . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective September 7, 2023.
  2. http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/index.cfm?sect=2009 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
  3. Web site: Madison Municipal Airport (FAA: MDS, IATA: XMD, ICAO: KMDS) . Great Circle Mapper . 17 August 2010.
  4. Web site: Middle Caicos Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands (IATA: MDS, ICAO: MBMC) . Aviation Safety Network . 17 August 2010.

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