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KE63 ·

Gila Bend Municipal Airport

32.95810°N

-112.67800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 14.3%

Gila Bend Municipal Airport (KE63) is a small general aviation airport located in Gila Bend, AZ, 49 mi south west of Phoenix. It features 1 runway measuring 5,200 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 12 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

5,200 FT MAX

04/22

5,200 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

93% of ops

28 land · 0 TO

7% of ops

2 land · 0 TO

Runway 22 carries 93% of operations (28 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 7%.

Approach quality

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

22 28 landings

UA 0%

04 2 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 22 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 28 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

8.9

flights/day · 268 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 5pm · 4pm

Day vs night

72%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 8.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (12.0 vs 8.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (39% of 260 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-05-14

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAB
Mag var:: 13° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports — click to expand

rstan

06/15/2020

Cheap Fuel

unmanned but good FBO

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