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KE63 ·

Gila Bend Municipal Airport

32.95810°N

-112.67800°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 24.5%

DEP / DAY

▲ 42.2%

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 9 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KLUF, 43 mi away (KE63 does not publish METAR)

36m ago

Temp

99°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KLUF 290555Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM CLR 37/15 A2979 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N AND S SLP069 T03730145 10435 20371 52012 $

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

74% of ops

467 land · 442 TO

26% of ops

167 land · 143 TO

Runway 22 carries 74% of operations (467 landings, 442 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

22 467 landings

UA 8%

04 167 landings

UA 17%

Approaches to 22 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (38 UA events from 467 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

16.2

flights/day · 485 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 5pm

Day vs night

75%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 16.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (16.4 vs 16.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (35% of 433 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

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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