KELN Bowers Fld

WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 29 — favored by the wind (12 kt at 310° 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: WEAK no tower now

Wind 310° true at 12 kt · IFR · 8 min old

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29 99% 4300 ft · 12 kt head, 1 kt x-left

11 <1% 4300 ft · 12 kt TAIL, 1 kt x-right

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

APCH OTS until 11-07 21:32Z

IAP BOWERS FLD, ELLENSBURG, WA. VOR-B, AMDT 3D... ALTERNATE MINIMUMS NA EXCEPT FOR ACFT EQUIPPED WITH SUITABLE RNAV SYSTEM WITH GPS, ELN VOR UNMONITORED.

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 29

WIND 12 kt headwind, 1 kt left crosswind 8 min ago +2.79

Runway 11

WIND 12 kt TAILWIND, 1 kt right crosswind 8 min ago -23.04

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	8 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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KELN field & runways

Bowers Fld, Ellensburg, Washington. Field elevation 1763 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 16.0°E on record, 14.4°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 0.118°/year west — about 1° every 8 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
11	133.1°	118.7°	runway 12 by the rule today · 8.7° past	4,300 ft	CONC	left
29	313.1°	298.7°	runway 30 by the rule today · 8.7° past	4,300 ft	CONC	left

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KELN ☆ Bowers Fld