Stanton Airfield
SYN · KSYN · Stanton, Minnesota · Goodhue County · map
Stanton Airfield is a public-use airport owned by Stanton Sport Aviation INC, 1 mile east of Stanton, Minnesota, 920 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 2,582 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, UL94 unleaded avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SYN · ICAO KSYN
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Stanton Sport Aviation INC
- Elevation
- 920 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 400 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1943
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,582 × 200 ft | Grass, good | |
| 09/27 | 1,996 × 180 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: crops 8 ft high 5 ft from the end
- Runway 36: threshold displaced 300 ft, road 18 ft high 59 ft from the end
- Runway 27: crops 8 ft high 3 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Syn and aWOS-3 | 119.35 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 507-664-3806.
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 Stanton from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Stanton, Minnesota: 8 piston singles, 7 gliders. 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, 1 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
- Estabd bfr 1959.
- Glider operations SFC-8000 feet above sea level on and in the vicinity of airport durg daylight hours on weekends except winter months.
- Pattern altitude: 400 feet above ground level ultralight, 800 feet above ground level gliders.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Runway and dthr marked with yellow cones.
- Seasonal crops: runway 27 slp 0:1 when crops prsnt.
- Seasonal crops: runway 18 slp 0:1 when crops prsnt.
- Approach slp 20:1 to dthr.
- Crosswind runway ends not vsb to each otr when crops present.
- Not plowed winter months.
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.