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Detroit Lakes Airport - Wething Field

46.82520°N
-95.88570°W
ARR / DAY
5
32.1%
DEP / DAY
7
22.0%

Detroit Lakes Airport - Wething Field (KDTL/DTL) is a small general aviation airport located in Detroit Lakes, MN, 43 mi east of Fargo. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,201 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

15m ago
Temp
68°F
Wind
4 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KDTL 250915Z AUTO 20004KT 10SM CLR 20/19 A2990 RMK AO2 T01960193

Runway intelligence

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

14
70% of ops
96 land · 6 TO
35
15% of ops
21 land · 5 TO
32
8% of ops
11 land · 31 TO
17
7% of ops
10 land · 17 TO
Runway 14 carries 70% of operations (96 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 15%.

Approach quality

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

14 96 landings
UA 0%
35 21 landings
UA 0%
32 11 landings
UA 0%
17 10 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 14 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 96 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
10.2
flights/day · 306 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 7pm · 3pm
Day vs night
64%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 10.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (11.2 vs 10.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (49% of 255 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.075
DETROIT 122.500
OTHER 122.500
ALEXANDR 126.100
OTHER 126.100
ALEXANDR 269.200
OTHER 269.200
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
2° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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