runwayinuse

85MN Sparkys

27
WIND_INFERRED 90%

Runway 27 — favored by the wind (21 kt at 220° 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

N 27 9

Wind 220° true at 21 kt G27 · VFR · 53 min old · from KMML (30.9 nm away)

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27 99% 1781 ft · 14 kt head, 16 kt x-left
9 <1% 1781 ft · 14 kt TAIL, 16 kt x-right
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Runway 27

Runway 9

Sources consulted

sourcestatus agenote
D_ATISUNAVAILABLE No D-ATIS at this field
METAROK 53 min Nearest station KMML (30.9 nm away)
ADSBUNAVAILABLE No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAMOK
CIFPNOT_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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85MN field & runways

Sparkys, Montevideo, Minnesota. Field elevation 1005 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 0.052°/year west — about 1° every 19 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
27 269.6° 267.8° matches 1,781 ft TURF
9 89.6° 87.8° matches 1,781 ft TURF

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