Decatur Municipal
LUD · KLUD · Decatur, Texas · Wise County · map
Decatur Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Decatur, 2 miles north of Decatur, Texas, 1,047 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,200 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 41 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 36,500 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KLUD · observed 11:55 pm CDT (04:55 UTC), 833 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southeast (160°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 73°F (23°C), dew point 57°F (14°C)
- Altimeter 29.98 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 KLUD 110455Z AUTO 16007KT 10SM CLR 23/14 A2998 RMK AO2 403220182
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.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
No SIGMET or AIRMET covers this field right now.
1 pilot report within 100 nautical miles in the last three hours:
- BE20 at 6,000 ft, 69 nm southwest, 1:40 pm CDT (18:40 UTC): a routine report.
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (DAL, 44 nm southeast), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 200° at 16 kt; 6,000 ft: 200° at 19 kt, 16 °C; 9,000 ft: 210° at 20 kt, 11 °C; 12,000 ft: 220° at 21 kt, 6 °C; 18,000 ft: 240° at 14 kt, -5 °C.
2 temporary flight restrictions within 50 nautical miles:
- 6/8646 Arlington, TX, Thursday, October 15, 2026 through Friday, October 16, 2026 UTC 38 nm southeast · drones kept away from a public gathering · starts Thursday 15 October
- 9/2934 DALLAS, TX 44 nm southeast · a VIP movement
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
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The airport
- Codes
- FAA LUD · ICAO KLUD
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Decatur
- Elevation
- 1,047 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,200 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 10 ft high 243 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, power line 28 ft high 760 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Garland and dp South | 118.1 | |
| Lud and aWOS-3 | 118.225 | |
| Sasie and star · Truuk Rnav Star | 124.3 | |
| Dodje and star · Reeko and star | 125.2 | |
| Likes and star · Motza and star · Wesat and star South; North | 125.8 | |
| Dodje and star | 125.9 | |
| Likes and star North | 135.975 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 940-627-2365.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 28 |
| multi-engine | 3 |
| helicopters | 8 |
| other | 2 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 36,500, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| general aviation, travelling | 27,375 |
| general aviation, local | 9,125 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
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 Decatur from the FAA register
75 aircraft are registered to owners in Decatur, Texas: 68 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Bridgeport Municipal (13 nm west), Denton Enterprise Airport (19 nm east), Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport (21 nm southeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Texas · avgas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Decatur, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
- Echelon Flight Support LLC Echelon Flight Support is an aircraft brokerage and aviation consulting company based in the DFW area of Texas.
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in Decatur, by their names on the register:
- Decatur Flight Center LLC 1 aircraft Decatur Jet Center is a fixed base operator at Decatur Municipal Airport in Decatur, Texas.
Repair stations in Decatur:
Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
34 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 34 for private pilot, 34 for commercial and instrument, 25 for airline transport pilot, 30 for flight instructor, 5 for sport pilot, 2 for type ratings; 28 for airplanes, 23 for multi-engine airplanes, 7 for helicopters, 1 for balloons. Also nearby: 4 sport aviation examiners, 37 aviation medical examiners, 6 mechanic examiners, 9 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 15 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 22 engineering representatives, 5 aircraft dispatcher examiners, 105 training center evaluators, 151 aircrew program designees, 5 training center examiners, 7 administrative pilot examiners.
- Ashley Noel Snider private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · Decatur, TX (0 nm) · (210) 544-4243 · ashleysnider09@gmail.com
- Victor Erik Wilson private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Northlake, TX (15 nm) · (817) 713-2334 · wilson.erik@gmail.com
- Christopher Charles Webb private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Denton, TX (19 nm) · (469) 601-5695 · chriswebbdpe@gmail.com
- Dale Williamson private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, helicopters · Hangar 10 Flying Museum · Denton, TX (19 nm) · (817) 657-4726 · dalewilliamson50@gmail.com
- James Harry Lightfoot private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Denton, TX (19 nm) · (817) 721-0091 · lightfootdpe@yahoo.com
- Ronnie Dean Arnold private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Springtown, TX (19 nm) · (817) 565-5364 · hawkerpilot62@yahoo.com
- Carl Evan Koele private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · T67 (Hicks Airport) · Fort Worth, TX (28 nm) · (480) 518-2498 · cactus.aero.llc@gmail.com
- Claudio Ruggero Magliocca private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot; airplanes · Fort Worth, TX (28 nm) · (817) 988-8002 · claudiomagliocca@hotmail.com
All 400 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Gnd drops sharply 160 feet north of runway 17 threshold.
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- 30 feet trees, 0-199 feet dstc, 245 feet L, 151 feet R.
- 20 feet trees, 140-199 feet dstc, 150-250 feet R.
- Also 30 feet marked power line, 770 feet dstc, air carriers approach.
- Deer and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Due to runway elev chg, aircraft not vsb at opposite end.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Decatur 75 aircraft · 68 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 turboprops
- North Texas Aerial Applicators INC 2 aircraft in town
- Kingdom Planes LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Jds Aero LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Aerial Specialties INC 2 aircraft in town
- Echelon Flight Support LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Decatur Flight Center LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Aerobrigham LLC · repair station
- Trinity Aviation Dynamics, LLC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 8 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,068 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 392 landing places
- Texas 29,860 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/LUD.json.
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 9, 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.