Addison Airport
ADS · KADS · Dallas, Texas · Dallas County · map
Addison Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Addison, 9 miles north of Dallas, Texas, 644 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 7,203 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KADS · observed 2:47 pm CDT (19:47 UTC), 8 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northeast (030°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 88°F (31°C), dew point 48°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.99 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KADS 061947Z 03007KT 10SM SKC 31/09 A2999
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ADS · ICAO KADS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Addison
- Elevation
- 644 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 956 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- 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
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1956
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 7,203 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 979 ft, 6,224 ft available for landing, road 10 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 34: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 772 ft, 6,431 ft available for landing, road 10 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 126.0 | Addison |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 133.4 | Addison |
| Clearance delivery | 119.55 | Addison |
| Ground | 121.6 | Addison |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Dallas Area Dp | 124.3 | Addison |
| Gregs and star · Herbz and star · Jfrye and star | 118.1 | Addison |
| Eesat and star · Loads and star · Slant and star | 125.025 | Addison |
| Yeagr and star | 125.2 | Addison |
| Eesat and star · Fingr and star · Loads and star | 125.275 | Addison |
| Swvay and star | 135.975 | Addison |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 972-386-4855.
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 Dallas from the FAA register
1,853 aircraft are registered to owners in Dallas, Texas: 826 airliners and large jets, 619 piston singles, 212 business jets, 84 turboprops, 63 piston twins. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 41 since 1982, 5 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
- Numerous 200 feet buildings within 1 mile east and south of airport; transmission towers and water tanks west of airport.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 16; high-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: 956 feet above ground level light aircraft, 1356 feet above ground level large aircraft.
- Emas NON-STD arresting gear/system: engineered materials arresting system (emas) 387 feet in length by 100 feet width located 35 feet setback from der 16.
- 10 feet airport perimeter road, 0-200 feet dstc, 275 feet R, 488 feet L
- 10 feet airport perimeter road, 0-200 feet dstc, 320 feet L to 460 feet R.
- Approach slope 10:1 to displaced threshold ovr 40 feet tree, 430 feet dstc, 475 feet L.
- Approach slope 17:1 to displaced threshold ovr 28 feet pole, 490 feet dstc, 536 feet L.
- Antenna on top of building.
- No tgl without amgr approval.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Be alert: runway hldg ptn markings located at the west edge of taxiway a.
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.