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Cherokee County Regional Airport

42.73170°N
-95.55590°W
ARR / DAY
1
25.0%
DEP / DAY
1
35.7%

Cherokee County Regional Airport (KCKP) is a small general aviation airport located in Cherokee, IA, 82 mi south east of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

just now
Temp
86°F
Wind
4 kts
160°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KCKP 312355Z AUTO 16004KT 10SM CLR 30/22 A2991 RMK AO2 10321 20272

Runway intelligence

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

18
33% of ops
8 land · 0 TO
19
29% of ops
7 land · 3 TO
01
21% of ops
5 land · 4 TO
36
17% of ops
4 land · 0 TO
Runway 18 carries 33% of operations (8 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

18 8 landings
UA 0%
19 7 landings
UA 0%
01 5 landings
UA 0%
36 4 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 8 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
1.6
flights/day · 49 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 2pm · 5pm
Day vs night
53%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.8 vs 2.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 46 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.225
SIOUX CI 125.025
OTHER 125.025
SIOUX CI 235.625
OTHER 235.625
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Elevation:
1,227 ft
Mag var:
5° E
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Anonymous
12/04/2012
NDB CKP 423 Decommissioned
CKP Pilot Rock 423 kHz was decommissioned April 2010.
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