runwayinuse

SN68 Lil Bird

18
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

N 18 36

Wind 210° true at 6 kt · VFR · 37 min old · from KBEC (12.0 nm away)

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18 93% 2462 ft · 5 kt head, 3 kt x-right
36 7% 2462 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 3 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 37 min Nearest station KBEC (12.0 nm away)
ADSBWARMING_UP 1685 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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SN68 field & runways

Lil Bird, Valley Center, Kansas. Field elevation 1456 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Private use. Magnetic variation 7.0°E on record, 2.9°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.
RunwayTrueMagnetic Number LengthSurfacePattern Notes
18 180.8° 177.9° matches 2,462 ft TURF
36 0.8° 357.9° matches 2,462 ft TURF

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