Madison Municipal Airport (IATA: XMD, ICAO: KMDS, FAA LID: MDS) 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.[1] 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]
Madison Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||||||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Madison | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Madison, South Dakota | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,718 ft / 524 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°00′59″N 097°05′08″W / 44.01639°N 97.08556°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | CityOfMadisonSD.com/... | ||||||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||||||
  Madison Municipal Airport  Madison Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Statistics (2023) | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
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
editMadison Municipal Airport covers an area of 375 acres (152 ha) 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.[1]
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.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d FAA Airport Form 5010 for MDS PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective September 7, 2023.
- ^ National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013: Appendix A: Part 4 (PDF, 1.61 MB) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008.
- ^ "Madison Municipal Airport (FAA: MDS, IATA: XMD, ICAO: KMDS)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
- ^ "Middle Caicos Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands (IATA: MDS, ICAO: MBMC)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
External links
edit- Airport page at City of Madison website
- Airport diagram from South Dakota DOT
- Aerial image as of 29 April 1998 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for MDS, effective October 31, 2024
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for MDS
- AirNav airport information for KMDS
- ASN accident history for XMD
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures