Audubon County
ADU · KADU · Audubon, Iowa · Audubon County · map
Audubon County is a public-use airport owned by Audubon County Arpt Auth, 1 mile southeast of Audubon, Iowa, 1,288 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,641 feet of concrete. It has 1 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 250 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KADU · observed 5:35 pm CDT (22:35 UTC), 18 minutes ago
- Wind from the south-southwest (210°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 82°F (28°C), dew point 54°F (12°C)
- Altimeter 29.85 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 KADU 062235Z AUTO 21006KT 10SM 28/12 A2985 RMK AO2 PWINO
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 ADU · ICAO KADU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Audubon County Arpt Auth
- Elevation
- 1,288 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
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,641 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 140 ft, tree 41 ft high 1,247 ft from the end
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, brdg 20 ft high 613 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Adu and aWOS-3 | 118.075 | |
| Omaha and center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 712-563-2101.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 250, 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.
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 Audubon from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Audubon, Iowa: 4 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 piston single. 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 Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Rotating beacon out of service indefinitely.
- The common traffic frequency out of service indefinitely.
- Runway 14 has 64 feet lighted pole 1200 feet from thld 350 feet L.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 and PAPI and runway end identifier lights runways 14 and 32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 14 approach slope 32:1 to displaced thld.
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.