Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois

Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA/KMWA) is in Marion, US, 144 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 2,442 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
MWA · KMWA
City
Marion
Country
US
Coordinates
37.7512, -89.0166
Elevation
144 m · 472 ft
Time zone
America/Chicago
Local time now
09:21
Airspace
Kansas City
Departures observed
13 · 2 arrivals
Most seen destinations
ORD, OMA

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (9)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
19:00DAL2707A319 · N348NBOMA
08:08N2290NP28A · N2290N
10:25N824MCC172 · N824MCUS-4882
10:36N20UQHDJT · N20UQ
12:06VTE3051CRJ2 · N920SWORD
16:28N833RTP210 · N833RT
17:04N824MCC172 · N824MC
17:26VTE3053CRJ2 · N920SWORD
18:49CAP1139C172 · N839CP

Landed (2)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
19:13ETNA41H47 · 13-0290458IS
11:55N824MCC172 · N824MCUS-4882

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
02/202,442 m · 8,012 ftasphalt23° · 203°
11/291,523 m · 4,997 ftasphalt108° · 288°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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