Madison Municipal Airport (IATA: XMD, ICAO: KMDS, FAA LID: MDS) is a city-owned public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Madison, a city in Lake County, South Dakota, United States.[1] This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[2]
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | City of Madison | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Madison, South Dakota | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,718 ft / 524 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 44°00′59″N 097°05′08″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | CityOfMadisonSD.com/... | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned MDS by the FAA and XMD by the IATA[3] (which assigned MDS to Middle Caicos Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands[4]).
Madison Municipal Airport covers an area of 375 acres (152 ha) at an elevation of 1,718 feet (524 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 15/33 is 5,000 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m) with an asphalt and concrete surface; 3/21 is 2,400 by 200 feet (732 x 61 m) with a turf surface.[1]
For the 12-month period ending October 19, 2009, the airport had 25,500 aircraft operations, an average of 69 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 81% single-engine, 5% multi-engine, 7% helicopter, 4% glider and 4% ultralight.[1]