runwayinuse

9KS3 Lucky Dog

18
WIND_INFERRED 70%

Runway 18 — favored by the wind (5 kt at 190° 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: 70% evidence: NONE no tower now

N 18 36

Wind 190° true at 5 kt · VFR · 50 min old · from KDDC (2.3 nm away)

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18 80% 3036 ft · 5 kt head, 1 kt x-right
36 20% 3036 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 1 kt x-left · right traffic
Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 18

Runway 36

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 50 min Nearest station KDDC (2.3 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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9KS3 field & runways

Lucky Dog, Dodge City, Kansas. Field elevation 2579 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 0.076°/year west — about 1° every 13 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
18 178.5° 173.9° runway 17 by the rule today · 6.1° past 3,036 ft TURF
36 358.5° 353.9° runway 35 by the rule today · 6.1° past 3,036 ft TURF right

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