KAAO Colonel James Jabara

PROBABLE 67%

Runway 36 — local convention slightly favors it

No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available. Weather observation is 1942 minutes old — treat with caution.

certainty: 67% evidence: NONE no tower now Class E

Wind calm · · 1942 min old

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36 62% 6101 ft · calm-wind rwy

18 38% 6101 ft · right traffic

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

LIGHTING RWY 18 until 10-21 20:00Z

RWY 18 PAPI U/S

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 36

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	1942 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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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