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Owatonna Degner Regional Airport

44.12340°N
-93.26060°W
ARR / DAY
4
52.6%
DEP / DAY
3
63.1%

Owatonna Degner Regional Airport (KOWA/OWA) is a small general aviation airport located in Owatonna, MN, 40 mi west of Rochester. It features 1 runway measuring 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

9m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
5 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KOWA 160015Z AUTO 18005KT 10SM BKN160 BKN190 OVC210 24/23 A2998 RMK AO2 T02450232

Runways

1 installed

5,500 FT MAX
12/30
5,500 ft × 100
CON● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

30
51% of ops
180 land · 173 TO
12
49% of ops
176 land · 121 TO
Runway 30 carries 51% of operations (180 landings, 173 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

30 180 landings
UA 9%
12 176 landings
UA 12%
Approaches to 30 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 180 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
12.2
flights/day · 366 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 8pm · 2pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 12.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (9.5 vs 13.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (42% of 313 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
APCH 119.800
APCH 251.125
UNICOM 122.700
AWOS 128.325
OTHER 122.200
OWATONNA 122.200
OTHER 132.350
ROCHESTE 132.350
OTHER 307.300
ROCHESTE 307.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
2° 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
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