📍 Minden⬆ 4,722 ft3 runways

KMEV · MEV

Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N

-119.75100°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 26.3%

Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV/MEV) is a small general aviation airport located in Minden, NV, 37 mi south of Reno. It features 3 runways with the longest being 7,399 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 34 arrivals and 34 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 3 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12d ago

Temp

55°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMEV 140715Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM 13/11 A3006 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

7,399 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

43% of ops

440 land · 408 TO

32% of ops

325 land · 227 TO

16% of ops

163 land · 67 TO

9% of ops

88 land · 44 TO

Runway 34 carries 43% of operations (440 landings, 408 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

34 440 landings

UA 9%

30 325 landings

UA 6%

16 163 landings

UA 7%GA 1.2%

12 88 landings

UA 2%

Approaches to 34 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (39 UA events from 440 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

56.3

flights/day · 1,688 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 56.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (70.1 vs 53.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 950 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	119.200	—
APCH	279.550	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
AWOS	119.325	—
CD/P	133.250	—
OTHER	133.250	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 11 AM · 1 movement every 360 s

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

09/25/2011

Great field

Slept the night here (in my plane). No close hotels but one of the best airport cafe's you could ever ask for. Small in a hanger pilot shop with great people. A real down home feel to the place. Stop and relax over a great meal at the Tail Dragger Restaurant.

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