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Madison Municipal Airport

44.01600°N
-97.08590°W
ARR / DAY
0
▼ 86.7%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 80.0%

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 0 arrivals and 1 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

3h ago
Temp
82°F
Wind
8 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KMDS 261555Z AUTO 24008KT 10SM CLR 28/25 A2984 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
41% of ops
56 land · 7 TO
15
33% of ops
45 land · 47 TO
03
14% of ops
19 land · 8 TO
21
12% of ops
16 land · 6 TO
Runway 33 carries 41% of operations (56 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 15 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

33 56 landings
UA 0%
15 45 landings
UA 7%
03 19 landings
UA 0%
21 16 landings
UA 25%
Approaches to 33 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 56 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
3.4
flights/day · 103 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 7pm · 2pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–6pm local, averaging 3.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (2.5 vs 4.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

18 · 19%
15 · 16%
12 · 13%
10 · 11%
6 · 6%
6 · 6%
Activity is led by (19% of 95 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

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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