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Platte Valley Airpark

40.10000°N
-104.70100°W
ARR / DAY
5
20.0%
DEP / DAY
4
30.0%

Platte Valley Airpark (K18V) is a small general aviation airport located in Hudson, CO, 22 mi north east of Thornton. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,100 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KDEN, 17 mi away (K18V does not publish METAR)

50m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
8 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KDEN 240953Z 25008KT 10SM SCT220 18/11 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP118 T01780111

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

33
49% of ops
83 land · 25 TO
15
28% of ops
48 land · 45 TO
09
13% of ops
22 land · 2 TO
27
9% of ops
16 land · 8 TO
Runway 33 carries 49% of operations (83 landings, 25 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 15 at 28%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

33 83 landings
UA 12%
15 48 landings
UA 2%
09 22 landings
UA 23%
27 16 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 33 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 83 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
8.0
flights/day · 239 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 2pm
Day vs night
90%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 8.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (10.5 vs 7.4 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (21% of 175 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDV
Elevation:
4,965 ft
Mag var:
11° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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