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Albert Lea Municipal Airport

43.68150°N
-93.36720°W
ARR / DAY
6
28.6%
DEP / DAY
7
43.8%

Albert Lea Municipal Airport (KAEL/AEL) is a small general aviation airport located in Albert Lea, MN, 51 mi south west of Rochester. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KAUM, 22 mi away (KAEL does not publish METAR)

just now
Temp
82°F
Wind
4 kts
240°
Visib
6437 m
Ceil
METAR KAUM 312035Z AUTO 24004KT 4SM BR 28/27 A2988 RMK AO2 T02830269

Runway intelligence

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

35
46% of ops
103 land · 76 TO
17
37% of ops
83 land · 101 TO
23
10% of ops
22 land · 5 TO
05
7% of ops
15 land · 3 TO
Runway 35 carries 46% of operations (103 landings, 76 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

35 103 landings
UA 17%
17 83 landings
UA 14%
23 22 landings
UA 27%
05 15 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 35 show a 17% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 103 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
9.9
flights/day · 297 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 8pm · 11pm
Day vs night
56%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–11pm local, averaging 9.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (9.1 vs 10.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 261 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
APCH 119.800
APCH 251.125
UNICOM 123.000
AWOS 119.575
ROCHESTE 132.350
OTHER 132.350
ROCHESTE 307.300
OTHER 307.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Elevation:
1,261 ft
Mag var:
1° E
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 18:14 UTC