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Ottawa Municipal Airport

38.53870°N
-95.25300°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 20.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 44.4%

Ottawa Municipal Airport (KOWI) is a small general aviation airport located in Ottawa, KS, 33 mi south west of Olathe. It features 3 runways with the longest being 4,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 1 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

15h ago
Temp
95°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KOWI 051555Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 35/21 A2997 RMK A01

Runways

3 installed

4,500 FT MAX
05/23
2,345 ft × 81
GRS○ unlitCLOSED
13/31
1,550 ft × 95
GRS○ unlit
17/35
4,500 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

17
38% of ops
60 land · 20 TO
23
24% of ops
38 land · 15 TO
35
18% of ops
29 land · 12 TO
05
9% of ops
15 land · 2 TO
13
8% of ops
12 land · 3 TO
31
4% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
Runway 17 carries 38% of operations (60 landings, 20 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

17 60 landings
UA 3%
23 38 landings
UA 3%
35 29 landings
UA 14%
05 15 landings
UA 7%
13 12 landings
UA 42%
31 6 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 60 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
5.4
flights/day · 161 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 3pm
Day vs night
71%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 5.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 3.1× weekday (10.9 vs 3.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

33 · 23%
32 · 23%
10 · 7%
9 · 6%
8 · 6%
5 · 4%
Activity is led by (23% of 141 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 118.250 —
OTHER 127.725 —
EMPORIA 127.725 —
OTHER 270.250 —
EMPORIA 270.250 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Mag var:
4° 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
AlanM70
06/30/2022
Stopped over to deliver parts.
Nice airport. Nice courtesy car that they allowed us to reserve ahead of time.
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