Owatonna Degner Regional
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Owatonna Degner Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Owatonna, 3 miles northwest of Owatonna, Minnesota, 1,145 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 5,500 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA OWA · ICAO KOWA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Owatonna
- Elevation
- 1,145 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 852 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- May to September, Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; May to September, weekends, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm; October to April, Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; October to April, weekends, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
- 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
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1946
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 5,500 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 3,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 30: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 05: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.8 | |
| Owa and aWOS-3 | 128.325 | |
| Rochester and center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 507-455-0642.
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 Owatonna from the FAA register
26 aircraft are registered to owners in Owatonna, Minnesota: 23 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 drone. 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 Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 3 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
- Ultralights on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23; approach lights (MALSR) runway 30; runway end identifier lights runway 05, 12 and 23; high-intensity runway lights runway 12/30; PAPI runway 05, 12, 23, and 30 - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL available 24 hours west credit card.
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.