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Winterset Madison County Airport

41.36280°N
-94.02110°W
ARR / DAY
8
▲ 700.0%
DEP / DAY
8
▲ 700.0%

Winterset Madison County Airport (K3Y3) is a small general aviation airport located in Winterset, IA, 27 mi south west of Des Moines. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KDSM, 22 mi away (K3Y3 does not publish METAR)

19m ago
Temp
61°F
Wind
6 kts
10°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KDSM 140654Z 01006KT 10SM OVC042 16/11 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP163 T01610106

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX
14/32
3,000 ft × 50
ASP● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

14
65% of ops
130 land · 177 TO
32
35% of ops
69 land · 44 TO
Runway 14 carries 65% of operations (130 landings, 177 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

14 130 landings
UA 3%
32 69 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 14 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 130 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
8.5
flights/day · 254 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 7pm · 8pm
Day vs night
57%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 8.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (6.8 vs 9.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (48% of 254 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700 —
APCH 123.900 —
APCH 360.700 —
UNICOM 122.700 —
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 07:13 UTC