runwayinuse

49MT Firebuster

28
WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 28 — favored by the wind (10 kt at 230° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 90% evidence: WEAK no tower now

N 28 10

Wind 230° true at 10 kt · VFR · 20 min old · from KBIL (27.0 nm away)

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28 99% 6000 ft · 4 kt head, 9 kt x-left · right traffic
10 1% 6000 ft · 4 kt TAIL, 9 kt x-right · right traffic
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Runway 28

Runway 10

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 20 min Nearest station KBIL (27.0 nm away)
ADSBUNAVAILABLE No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAMOK
CIFPNOT_CONFIGURED Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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49MT field & runways

Firebuster, Columbus, Montana. Field elevation 3901 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Private use.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.091°/year west — about 1° every 11 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against today's declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
RunwayTrueMagnetic Number LengthSurfacePattern Notes
10 114.5° 104.3° matches rule gives runway 11 in ~8 yr 6,000 ft GRVL right
28 294.5° 284.3° matches rule gives runway 29 in ~8 yr 6,000 ft GRVL right

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