Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota)

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 typePublic
OwnerCity of Madison
ServesMadison, South Dakota
Elevation AMSL1,718 ft / 524 m
Coordinates44°00′59″N 097°05′08″W
WebsiteCityOfMadisonSD.com/...
Map
Madison Municipal Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/33 5,000 1,524 Asphalt/Concrete
3/21 2,400 732 Turf
Statistics (2009)
Aircraft operations25,500
Based aircraft57

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 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.[1]

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.[1]

References
  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for MDS PDF. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010.
  2. 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.
  3. "Madison Municipal Airport (FAA: MDS, IATA: XMD, ICAO: KMDS)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  4. "Middle Caicos Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands (IATA: MDS, ICAO: MBMC)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
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