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9KS8 Gators Place

18
WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 18 — favored by the wind (9 kt at 210° 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. ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 90% evidence: WEAK no tower now

N 18 36

Wind 210° true at 9 kt · VFR · 28 min old · from KEWK (21.6 nm away)

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18 99% 1146 ft · 8 kt head, 4 kt x-right
36 <1% 1146 ft · 8 kt TAIL, 4 kt x-left
Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 18

Runway 36

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 28 min Nearest station KEWK (21.6 nm away)
ADSBWARMING_UP 4825 min Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAMOK
CIFPNOT_CONFIGURED Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (Only 0 min of track history so far)

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9KS8 field & runways

Gators Place, Towanda, Kansas. Field elevation 1326 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 0.072°/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
18 181.4° 178.6° matches 1,146 ft TURF
36 1.4° 358.6° matches 1,146 ft TURF

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