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Denison Municipal Airport

41.98640°N
-95.38070°W
ARR / DAY
2
175.0%
DEP / DAY
1
125.0%

Denison Municipal Airport (KDNS/DNS) is a small general aviation airport located in Denison, IA, 58 mi north east of Omaha. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

13h ago
Temp
57°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KDNS 280655Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 14/14 A3012 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

24
38% of ops
14 land · 2 TO
30
19% of ops
7 land · 2 TO
36
16% of ops
6 land · 1 TO
12
14% of ops
5 land · 2 TO
06
8% of ops
3 land · 3 TO
18
5% of ops
2 land · 4 TO
Runway 24 carries 38% of operations (14 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 19%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

24 14 landings
UA 0%
30 7 landings
UA 0%
36 6 landings
UA 0%
12 5 landings
UA 0%
06 3 landings
UA 0%
18 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 24 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 14 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
2.1
flights/day · 64 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 9pm · 1am
Day vs night
53%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1am–7pm local, averaging 2.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (2.4 vs 2.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (36% of 64 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.950
OMAHA RC 119.600
OTHER 119.600
DENISON 122.400
OTHER 122.400
OMAHA RC 290.400
OTHER 290.400
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
4° E
Fuel:
100LL
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