KCUT Custer County

PROBABLE 68%

Runway 26 — wind slightly favors it, low confidence

Based mostly on wind; 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: 68% evidence: NONE no tower now

Wind 270° true at 4 kt · VFR · 47 min old

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26 68% 5500 ft · 4 kt head, 0 kt x-right

8 32% 5500 ft · 4 kt TAIL, 0 kt x-left

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 26

WIND 4 kt headwind, 0 kt right crosswind 47 min ago +0.17

Runway 8

WIND 4 kt TAILWIND, 0 kt left crosswind 47 min ago -0.59

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	47 min
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_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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KCUT field & runways

Custer County, Custer, South Dakota. Field elevation 5620 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 11.0°E on record, 7.1°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 0.078°/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.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
26	266.8°	259.8°	matches	5,500 ft	ASPH	left
8	86.8°	79.8°	matches	5,500 ft	ASPH	left

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