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St Landry Parish Ahart Field

30.55840°N
-92.09940°W
ARR / DAY
4
26.1%
DEP / DAY
4
3.6%

St Landry Parish Ahart Field (KOPL) is a small general aviation airport located in Opelousas, LA, 24 mi north of Lafayette. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,999 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago
Temp
86°F
Wind
3 kts
260°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KOPL 272115Z AUTO 26003KT 10SM SCT020 30/24 A2995 RMK AO2 T02980242

Runway intelligence

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

36
30% of ops
39 land · 21 TO
06
22% of ops
29 land · 2 TO
18
18% of ops
24 land · 21 TO
29
15% of ops
19 land · 5 TO
11
8% of ops
10 land · 2 TO
24
8% of ops
10 land · 12 TO
Runway 36 carries 30% of operations (39 landings, 21 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 06 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

36 39 landings
UA 5%
06 29 landings
UA 3%
18 24 landings
UA 4%
29 19 landings
UA 5%
11 10 landings
UA 0%
24 10 landings
UA 10%
Approaches to 36 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 39 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
7.5
flights/day · 225 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 2pm · 12pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–12pm local, averaging 7.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (7.6 vs 7.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (16% of 186 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
APCH 128.700
APCH 268.700
UNICOM 123.000
AWOS 118.775
OTHER 126.350
LAFAYETT 126.350
OTHER 338.250
LAFAYETT 338.250
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZHU
Mag var:
1° E
Fuel:
100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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 17:33 UTC