Hector Municipal
1D6 · Hector, Minnesota · Renville County · map
Hector Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Hector, 1 mile south of Hector, Minnesota, 1,078 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 2,776 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1D6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Hector
- Elevation
- 1,078 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1942
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 2,776 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Non-standard lights |
| 05/23 | 2,395 × 185 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 12: road 17 ft high 504 ft from the end
- Runway 05: road 19 ft high 397 ft from the end
- Runway 23: crops 5 ft high 96 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Hector from the FAA register
34 aircraft are registered to owners in Hector, Minnesota: 24 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 2 gliders, 1 helicopter. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Not plowed winter months.
- Lights mounted in yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- +8 feet crops in pri surface of all runways.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.