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KDSMDSMMajor airport

Des Moines International Airport

Des Moines, United States

Elevation
958 ft
Runways
2
Longest
9,004 ft
Position
41.534, -93.657
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

5231331N1 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
KDSMN
Nothing else in range.
Nothing else with an ICAO code inside fifty miles.

By the numbers

  • 18,005 ft

    Runway, all told

    3.0 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 228th

    Longest in United States

    of 881 airfields in the country

  • 1475th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 319th

    Highest in United States

    958 ft above sea level

  • 60 nm

    Nearest airfield

    KOTM, bearing 115

  • CONCRETE-GROOVED, Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
5/239,004 ft150 ftCONCRETE-GROOVEDYes
13/319,001 ft150 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS119.550
  • CLDCLNC DEL134.150
  • GNDGND121.900
  • TWRTWR118.300
  • A/DAPP/DEP118.600
  • OPSANG OPS MAINT138.150
  • RDOFORT DODGE RDO122.650

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

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  • Plan a leg out of KDSM
  • KDSM to KOTM, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at KDSM yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • KOTMOttumwa Regional Airport60 nm
  • KFODFort Dodge Regional Airport66 nm
  • KALOWaterloo Regional Airport83 nm
  • KCIDThe Eastern Iowa Airport90 nm
  • KMCWMason City Municipal Airport99 nm
  • KIRKKirksville Regional Airport100 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.