Airport type Public Serves Madison, South Dakota 15/33 5,000 Elevation 524 m | Owner City of Madison Elevation AMSL 1,718 ft / 524 m Code XMD Phone +1 605-256-9774 | |
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Website CityOfMadisonSD.com/... Address 1600 Airport Drive, Madison, SD 57042, USA Similar City Streets & Maintena, Finance Office, Lake County Sheriff Off, Dakota State University, The Community Center | ||
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. 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.
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 (which assigned MDS to Middle Caicos Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands).
Facilities and aircraft
Madison 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 2,400 by 200 feet (732 x 61 m) with a turf surface.
For the 12-month period ending October 19, 2009, the airport had 25,500 aircraft operations, an average of 69 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 7% helicopter, 4% glider and 4% ultralight.