Taylor County Airport (Wisconsin)

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Taylor County Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Taylor County
Location Medford, Wisconsin
Time zone CST (UTC−06:00)
 • Summer (DST)CDT (UTC−05:00)
Elevation  AMSL 1,478 ft / 450 m
Coordinates 45°06′05″N090°18′01″W / 45.10139°N 90.30028°W / 45.10139; -90.30028
Website co.taylor.wi.us/...
Map
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MDZ
Location of airport in Wisconsin
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MDZ
MDZ (the United States)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
9/276,0001,829Asphalt
16/344,4351,352Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2022)7,020
Based aircraft (2024)15

Taylor County Airport( IATA : MDF, ICAO : KMDZ, FAA LID : MDZ) is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Medford, a city in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. [1]

Contents

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a basic general aviation facility. [2] Although no commercial airlines service the airport, it does serve general aviation traffic including business and leisure fliers. Hangars are available for lease and fuel is also available.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MDZ by the FAA and MDF by the IATA [3] (which assigned MDZ to El Plumerillo Airport in Mendoza, Argentina [4] ).

Facilities and aircraft

Taylor County Airport covers an area of 567 acres (229  ha ) at an elevation of 1,478 feet (450 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: the primary runway 9/27 is 6,000 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30m) with approved GPS approaches and the crosswind runway 16/34 is 4,435 by 75 feet (1,352 x 23 m) also with approved GPS approaches.

For the 12-month period ending September 22, 2022, the airport had 7,020 aircraft operations, an average of 19 per day: 93% general aviation, 7% air taxi and less than 1% military. In May 2024, there were 15 aircraft based at this airport: all 15 single-engine. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 FAA Airport Form 5010 for MDZ PDF , effective May 16, 2024.
  2. ↑ "NPIAS Report 2019-2023 Appendix A" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration . October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: MDF / KMDZ - Medford, Wisconsin (Taylor County Airport)
  4. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: MDZ / SAME - Mendoza, Argentina (El Plumerillo Airport)
  5. ↑ "AirNav: Airport Information".


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