Danbury Municipal
DXR · KDXR · Danbury, Connecticut · Fairfield County · map
Danbury Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Danbury, 3 miles southwest of Danbury, Connecticut, 457 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 4,421 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KDXR · observed 3:53 pm EDT (19:53 UTC), 43 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northwest (320°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 59°F (15°C), dew point 31°F (-1°C)
- Altimeter 30.06 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 KDXR 061953Z 32007KT 10SM CLR 15/M01 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP180 T01501006
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 DXR · ICAO KDXR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Danbury
- Elevation
- 457 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,243 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to dusk
- 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
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,421 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 3,135 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 08: localizer with DME, threshold displaced 367 ft, trees 15 ft high 230 ft from the end
- Runway 26: threshold displaced 734 ft, trees 88 ft high 450 ft from the end
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 223 ft, pole 22 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 35: threshold displaced 231 ft, trees 30 ft high 350 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.4 | Danbury |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Dxr and automated weather (ASOS) | 127.75 | Danbury |
| Clearance delivery When dxr tower closed | 128.6 | Danbury |
| Ground | 121.6 | Danbury |
| Approach and departure · Valre and star | 126.4 | Danbury |
| Nobbi and star · Valre and star | 120.8 | Danbury |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 203-791-8227.
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 Danbury from the FAA register
64 aircraft are registered to owners in Danbury, Connecticut: 43 piston singles, 9 business jets, 4 turboprops, 4 piston twins, 3 helicopters. 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 Connecticut.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 52 since 1982, 8 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Rotating beacon located one mile south of airport on top of a hill.
- Aircraft using runway 35 are not vsb from tower descending below 1300 feet on base leg until apchg 1/2 MI final due to natural trrn.
- When the control tower closed, activate runway end identifier lights runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- 1743 feet above ground level turboprop/jet.
- Runway closed nights.
- +9 feet fence 170 feet from threshold.
- 5 feet fence 50 feet from threshold; +15 feet road 94 feet from threshold.
- +6 feet fence 75 feet from threshold.
- +8 feet fence 150 feet from threshold; +17 feet road 120 feet from threshold.
- Approach ratio 12:1 based on displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 28:1 to displaced threshold.
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.