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5B4 Bowbells Muni

8
WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 8 — favored by the wind (6 kt at 100° 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: NONE no tower now

N 8 26

Wind 100° true at 6 kt · IFR · 39 min old · from K08D (31.1 nm away)

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8 95% 2900 ft · 6 kt head, 2 kt x-right
26 5% 2900 ft · 6 kt TAIL, 2 kt x-left
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Runway 8

Runway 26

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 39 min Nearest station K08D (31.1 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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5B4 field & runways

Bowbells Muni, Bowbells, North Dakota. Field elevation 1955 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 11.0°E on record, 6.5°E today.

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 0.07°/year west — about 1° every 14 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
26 266.0° 259.5° matches 2,900 ft TURF left
8 86.0° 79.5° matches 2,900 ft TURF left

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