KAAO Colonel James Jabara

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 18 — favored by the wind (6 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: NONE no tower now Class E

Wind 210° true at 6 kt · VFR · 7 min old · from KBEC (3.2 nm away)

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18 95% 6101 ft · 6 kt head, 2 kt x-right · right traffic

36 5% 6101 ft · 6 kt TAIL, 2 kt x-left · calm-wind rwy

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 18

WIND 6 kt headwind, 2 kt right crosswind 7 min ago +0.61

Runway 36

WIND 6 kt TAILWIND, 2 kt left crosswind 7 min ago -2.86
PRIOR 36 is the designated calm-wind runway +0.50

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	7 min	Nearest station KBEC (3.2 nm away)
ADSB	WARMING_UP	4723 min	Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_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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KAAO field & runways

Colonel James Jabara, Wichita, Kansas. Field elevation 1421 ft. Class E airspace. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 6.0°E on record, 2.8°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 0.072°/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.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
18	186.8°	184.0°	matches rule gives runway 19 in ~14 yr	6,101 ft	CONC	right	ILS
36	6.8°	4.0°	matches rule gives runway 1 in ~14 yr	6,101 ft	CONC		calm-wind RWY 36 DSGND CALM WIND RWY.

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KAAO ☆ Colonel James Jabara