Fort Madison Municipal
FSW · KFSW · Fort Madison, Iowa · Lee County · map
Fort Madison Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fort Madison, 2 miles north of Fort Madison, Iowa, 722 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,000 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Weather right now KFSW · observed 2:35 pm CDT (19:35 UTC), 19 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (170°) at 10 knots, gusting to 17
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 79°F (26°C), dew point 52°F (11°C)
- Altimeter 29.95 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 KFSW 061935Z AUTO 17010G17KT 10SM CLR 26/11 A2995 RMK AO2
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 FSW · ICAO KFSW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fort Madison
- Elevation
- 722 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Sunday, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1959
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 40 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 13 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Fsw and aWOS-3 | 120.925 | |
| Burlington and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 319-372-5147.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Fort Madison from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Madison, Iowa: 6 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Taxiway lights at entrance only.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 and runway end identifier lights runway 35 and PAPI runway 35 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self serve with credit card.
- Runway 35 PAPI unusable beyond 6 degreess left of centerline and beyond 8 degreess right of centerline.
- +33 feet trees 1000 feet L/R.
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.