KDSM — Des Moines International Airport
Des Moines, IA. This page is the complete recovered record for this field: every ground visit and every flight leg by an aircraft this investigation tracks.
The field
| Field | Value |
|---|
| ICAO / ident | KDSM |
| Name | Des Moines International Airport |
| Where | Des Moines, IA |
| IATA | DSM |
| Type | large airport |
| Elevation | 958 ft |
| Coordinates | 41.534027, -93.656719 |
| Scheduled airline service | yes |
| Aircraft tracked here | 2 |
| Recovered ground visits | 2 |
| Recovered flight legs | 4 |
Every recovered ground visit at this field
One row is one continuous run of on-ground positions. Times are UTC, exactly as the archives recorded them.
| Date (UTC) | Aircraft | What it is | Ground window (UTC) | km from field | Ground fixes | Near a sourced event? |
|---|
| 2024-09-03 | N1098L | LASAI Aviation II Global 6500, callsign AXEL10 | 22:36–22:45 | 0.09 | 131 | — |
| 2024-09-17 | N2100L | LASAI Aviation II Global 6500, callsign AXEL21 | 00:01–00:40 | 0.24 | 58 | — |
Flight legs into and out of this field
| Leg date (UTC) | Aircraft | Direction | Other end | Left after | Arrived by | How well observed |
|---|
| 2024-08-01 | N1098L | arrived | KOAK — Berkeley, CA | 23:14 | 22:36 | gap — unobserved 32 day(s) |
| 2024-09-03 | N1098L | departed | KOAK — Berkeley, CA | 22:45 | 18:44 | gap — unobserved 6 day(s) |
| 2024-09-04 | N2100L | arrived | KMSN — Madison, WI | 19:02 | 00:01 | gap — unobserved 12 day(s) |
| 2024-09-17 | N2100L | departed | KCEW — Crestview, FL | 00:40 | 17:53 | gap — unobserved 13 day(s) |
What this page cannot tell you
- Presence is not purpose, and it is not occupancy. No ADS-B record places any person aboard any aircraft.
- An absent day is not an absent aircraft. Volunteer receiver coverage is uneven, and a jet parked with its transponder off is invisible. Absence here is a coverage fact.
- 2022 is effectively blank — no free archive covers it.