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Colorado Air and Space Port

39.78419°N
-104.53764°W
ARR / DAY
51
19.1%
DEP / DAY
50
18.7%

Colorado Air and Space Port (KFTG) is a small general aviation airport located in Denver, CO, 16 mi east of Aurora. It features 3 runways with the longest being 8,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 51 arrivals and 50 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KDEN, 9 mi away (KFTG does not publish METAR)

48m ago
Temp
69°F
Wind
6 kts
10°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KDEN 030253Z 01006KT 10SM SCT100 BKN140 BKN220 21/11 A3003 RMK AO2 OCNL LTGICCG DSNT W-NW CB DSNT W-NW MOV NE SLP090 T02060106 53015

Runway intelligence

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

26
68% of ops
2,518 land · 1,676 TO
08
12% of ops
456 land · 532 TO
35
10% of ops
365 land · 48 TO
36
5% of ops
167 land · 14 TO
17
5% of ops
166 land · 945 TO
18
0% of ops
15 land · 19 TO
Runway 26 carries 68% of operations (2,518 landings, 1,676 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

26 2,518 landings
UA 1%
08 456 landings
UA 13%
35 365 landings
UA 6%
36 167 landings
UA 20%GA 1.2%
17 166 landings
UA 22%
18 15 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 26 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (35 UA events from 2,518 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
84.3
flights/day · 2,530 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 3pm · 5pm
Day vs night
83%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 84.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (64.8 vs 95.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (68% of 1,918 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 4 PM · 1 movement every 189 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 03:41 UTC