Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport
airport in Kansas, United States of America
Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport (ICAO: KADT, FAA LID: ADT) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) north of the central business district of Atwood, in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States. It is owned by the City of Atwood & Rawlins County.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport is assigned ADT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Facilities and aircraft
Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport covers an area of 250 acres (100 ha) which contains two runways: one is asphalt paved (runway 16/34 measuring 5,001 x 75 ft) and one is a turf surface (runway 3/21 at 2,400 x 100 ft). For the 12-month period ending June 9, 2006, the airport had 12,300 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport” as airport in Kansas, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in Kansas, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2902514. Authority coordinates are 39.840, -101.042. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.
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This entry incorporates text from “Atwood–Rawlins County City–County Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.