Columbus Municipal
OLU · KOLU · Columbus, Nebraska · Platte County · map
Columbus Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Columbus, 1 mile northeast of Columbus, Nebraska, 1,447 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 14/32, is 6,801 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KOLU · observed 3:56 pm CDT (20:56 UTC), 24 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the southwest (230°) at 4 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 83°F (28°C), dew point 61°F (16°C)
- Altimeter 29.87 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 KOLU 062056Z AUTO 23004KT 10SM CLR 28/16 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP107 T02830161 58018
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 OLU · ICAO KOLU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Columbus
- Elevation
- 1,447 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- 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
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1945
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 6,801 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 02/20 | 4,135 × 150 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 14: LOCALIZER, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 6,260 ft available for landing
- Runway 32: VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 950 ft, 5,850 ft available for landing, tree 60 ft high 1,275 ft from the end
- Runway 02: threshold displaced 101 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Olu and aWOS-3PT | 125.525 | |
| Omaha and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 402-563-3895.
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 Columbus from the FAA register
41 aircraft are registered to owners in Columbus, Nebraska: 29 piston singles, 7 drones, 2 turboprops, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 piston twin. 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 Nebraska.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32; PAPI runway 14; VASI runway 32; runway end identifier lights runway 32 and approach lights (MALSR) runway 14 - the common traffic frequency.
- Shuraya choat, city clerk
- Runway 02/20 not plowed winter months.
- Runway 02 end cones mark displaced thld; not runway end.
- Boundary MARKERS-G.
- Runway 32 clnc slope 37:1 to displaced threshold.
- Waterfowl in the vicinity of airport.
- Deer in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 32 is designated as the calm wind runway.
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.