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Colonel James Jabara Airport

37.74760°N

-97.22110°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 5.2%

DEP / DAY

▲ 3.0%

Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 6,101 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 40 arrivals and 49 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 13 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

54m ago

Temp

97°F

Wind

14 kts

190°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KAAO 031854Z AUTO 19014G21KT 10SM CLR 36/19 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP101 T03610189

Runways

1 installed

6,101 FT MAX

18/36

6,101 ft × 100

CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

1,284 land · 1,375 TO

35% of ops

702 land · 758 TO

Runway 18 carries 65% of operations (1,284 landings, 1,375 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

18 1,284 landings

UA 13%

36 702 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 18 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (170 UA events from 1,284 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

70.8

flights/day · 2,125 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 10pm · 7pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 70.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (58.8 vs 78.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (35% of 1,579 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	134.800	—
APCH	269.100	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
ASOS	134.025	—
CD/P	125.000	—
OTHER	125.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 6° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Tony

02/03/2008

Good Fuel Stop at Wichita

There is a full-service FBO here. The airport is at the north edge of town, away from the complicated airspace around the other (12+?) airports at Wichita. Fuel is expensive, but they have lots of hangars in case of thunderstorms during an overnight stop. Lots of hotels with shuttles to pick you up.

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