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Owatonna Degner Regional Airport

44.12340°N
-93.26060°W
ARR / DAY
5
35.8%
DEP / DAY
5
44.1%

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 5 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
6 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KOWA 170315Z AUTO 24006KT 10SM FEW049 17/17 A3006 RMK AO2 T01750165

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
52% of ops
177 land · 185 TO
12
48% of ops
165 land · 113 TO
Runway 30 carries 52% of operations (177 landings, 185 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

30 177 landings
UA 7%
12 165 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 30 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 177 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
12.4
flights/day · 372 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 8pm · 2pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 12.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (11.6 vs 13.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (42% of 312 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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 11:42 UTC