Northwood Municipal
5D2 · Northwood, Iowa · Worth County · map
Northwood Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Northwood, 1 mile east of Northwood, Iowa, 1,226 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,300 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5D2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Northwood
- Elevation
- 1,226 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1961
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,300 × 100 ft | Grass, fair | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 17: road on the approach
- Runway 35: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Northwood from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Northwood, Iowa: 4 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Crop dusting on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Solar lights operate sunset to sunrise.
- Solar lights mounted on yellow cones.
- Runways 17& 35 thlds and edges marked with yellow cones.
- Runways 17 and 35 thlds and edges marked with yellow cones.
- Controlling obstruction exceeds a 45 degree slope runway 17/35 +18FT road 100 feet east and parallel centerline.
- Runway 17/35 +18 feet bit road 100 feet east and parallel centerline.
- No snow removal. Airport closed when snow conditions exist.
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.