Winterset Municipal
3Y3 · Winterset, Iowa · Madison County · map
Winterset Municipal is a public-use airport, 2 miles north of Winterset, Iowa, 1,116 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3Y3
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 1,116 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; weekends, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1970
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,002 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 175 ft, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 9 ft high 289 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Winterset from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Winterset, Iowa: 12 piston singles, 6 drones, 3 helicopters, 1 balloon. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- Provided northwest end runway is displaced suf dstc to provide 15 feet clnc ovr east/west road for a 20:1 approach ratio.
- Ultralight act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 and PAPI runways 14 and 32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Winterset airport authority
- Medium-intensity runway lights - runway 14/32 ends have six thld lights and all white lenses along runway length.
- 15 feet road 140 feet from runway end
- Approach slope 6:1 from displaced thld.
- Runway 32 end safety area extds 240 feet; sharp drop at that point.
- Inadqt clnc for hldg on the tarnd at the threshold of runway 32.
- Runway 32 is calm wind runway.
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.