Red Cloud Municipal
7V7 · Red Cloud, Nebraska · Webster County · map
Red Cloud Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Red Cloud Airport Authority, 1 mile west of Red Cloud, Nebraska, 1,744 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,702 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,160 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 7V7
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Red Cloud Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 1,744 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,702 × 60 ft | Concrete, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 47 ft high 1,123 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Hastings and center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.4 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,160, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Red Cloud from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Red Cloud, Nebraska: 4 piston singles. 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- DUSK-2300. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 preset on low intst and runway end identifier lights runway 16/34 on DUSK-2300; to incr intst and activate PAPI runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency; after 2300 activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34, PAPI runway 16/34 and runway end identifier lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency. From sunrise to sunset activate PAPI runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Dayre williams chairman.
- Courtesy car available.
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.