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Madison Municipal Airport

44.01600°N
-97.08590°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 6.3%
DEP / DAY
2
▼ 35.3%

Madison Municipal Airport (KMDS/XMD) is a small general aviation airport located in Madison, SD, 37 mi north west of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20m ago
Temp
66°F
Wind
12 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KMDS 241455Z AUTO 17012KT 10SM OVC060 19/17 A3002 RMK AO2 TSNO

Runways

2 installed

5,000 FT MAX
03/21
2,380 ft × 200
GRS○ unlit
15/33
5,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

33
45% of ops
29 land · 7 TO
15
28% of ops
18 land · 8 TO
21
15% of ops
10 land · 5 TO
03
12% of ops
8 land · 0 TO
Runway 33 carries 45% of operations (29 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 15 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

33 29 landings
UA 3%
15 18 landings
UA 0%
21 10 landings
UA 10%
03 8 landings
UA 25%
Approaches to 33 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 29 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
4.2
flights/day · 126 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 6pm · 3pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 4.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (5.5 vs 3.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

27 · 23%
20 · 17%
17 · 15%
7 · 6%
6 · 5%
6 · 5%
Activity is led by (23% of 117 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 118.350 —
APT REMA 121.725 —
OTHER 121.725 —
SIOUX FA 132.050 —
OTHER 132.050 —
SIOUX FA 317.400 —
OTHER 317.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
4° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
AlanM70
05/20/2021
Nice place to go
I am here for a few days to finish up my private certificate. Will probably consider coming back to get commercial and IFR.
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