Sierraville Dearwater Airport satellite view

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KO79 ·

Sierraville Dearwater Airport

39.58100°N

-120.35400°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 17.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 12.5%

Sierraville Dearwater Airport (KO79) is a small general aviation airport located in Sierraville, CA, 29 mi west of Reno. It features 1 runway measuring 3,093 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KTRK, 21 mi away (KO79 does not publish METAR)

56m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

15 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTRK 022150Z 21015G25KT 10SM FEW080 SCT120 BKN210 17/M01 A3011

Runways

1 installed

3,093 FT MAX

03/21

3,093 ft × 50

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

93% of ops

226 land · 3 TO

7% of ops

18 land · 17 TO

Runway 03 carries 93% of operations (226 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 21 at 7%.

Approach quality

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

03 226 landings

UA 0%

21 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 03 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 226 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

8.8

flights/day · 264 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 5pm · 6pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 8.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (10.4 vs 8.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 188 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 16° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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