Wilder Airport
6E5 · Desmet, South Dakota · Kingsbury County · map
Wilder Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Desmet, 2 miles north of Desmet, South Dakota, 1,730 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,700 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 6E5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Desmet
- Elevation
- 1,730 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,700 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| 6E5 AWOS-3P | 118.150 | |
| Huron and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.25 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 605-860-2233.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Desmet from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Desmet, SD as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Activate PAPI runway 16 and 34; medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
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.