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Oroville Municipal Airport

39.48780°N
-121.62200°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 6.4%
DEP / DAY
4
▼ 20.6%

Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE/OVE) is a small general aviation airport located in Oroville, CA, 20 mi south east of Chico. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,020 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
12 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KOVE 022353Z AUTO 18012G22KT 10SM BKN120 26/12 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP152 T02560122 10261 20206 56017

Runways

2 installed

6,020 FT MAX
02/20
6,020 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
13/31
3,540 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

30
18% of ops
59 land · 4 TO
01
16% of ops
54 land · 3 TO
31
15% of ops
49 land · 5 TO
02
14% of ops
48 land · 3 TO
12
14% of ops
46 land · 29 TO
13
11% of ops
38 land · 26 TO
Runway 30 carries 18% of operations (59 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

30 59 landings
UA 0%
01 54 landings
UA 2%
31 49 landings
UA 2%
02 48 landings
UA 2%
12 46 landings
UA 0%
13 38 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 59 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
9.9
flights/day · 298 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 5pm · 11pm
Day vs night
51%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–11pm local, averaging 9.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (9.5 vs 10.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

63 · 26%
26 · 11%
19 · 8%
16 · 7%
14 · 6%
12 · 5%
Activity is led by (26% of 240 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 125.400 —
APCH 259.100 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
ASOS 121.425 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
16° E
Fuel:
100LL

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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
pilotal
08/28/2008
Eats
They have a good restaraunt at the golf course across from the fuel. They let us use their car but you could also taxi over to the restarant. The fuel was cheap and easy to get to. Self serve
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