Hill City Municipal Airport (KHLC / HLC)

United States · elevation 2238 ft AMSL · 39.3788, -99.8315 · Local time: --:--:-- · UTC time: --:--:--

About Hill City Municipal Airport

Hill City Municipal Airport is an airport with the ICAO code KHLC and the IATA code HLC. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Hill City. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KH prefix, which marks airports in United States. The four-letter code KHLC is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code HLC is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 39°22'44"N, 99°49'53"W, at an elevation of 2,238 ft (682 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Chicago.

Satellite view of KHLC

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Runways of KHLC

Threshold	Course	Length	Width	Surface
18	180°	1,524 m (5,001 ft)	23 m (75 ft)	asphalt
36	360°	1,524 m (5,001 ft)	23 m (75 ft)	asphalt

The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.

Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.

Runways at KHLC

According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Hill City Municipal Airport has one runway: 18/36 - 1,524 m long (5,001 ft), 23 m wide, asphalt surface.

Runway headings and wind

The thresholds are oriented as follows: 18/36 on 180° and 360° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.

For the 18/36 axis, wind from the west (around 270°) or from the east (around 90°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 180° or 360° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.

METAR and TAF for KHLC

Weather reports for Hill City Municipal Airport are published under the ICAO code KHLC. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.

The decoder breaks the KHLC report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.

Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for KHLC, check the nearby airports listed below.

Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Chicago zone is GMT-06:00 in winter and GMT-05:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.

The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Rooks County Regional Airport (Stockton) (KRCP, 45 km), Norton Municipal Airport (KNRN, 53 km), Phillipsburg Municipal Airport (KPHG, 59 km). When no report is available for KHLC, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.

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