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KPEA ·

Pella Municipal Airport

41.40010°N

-92.94590°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 51.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 50.0%

Pella Municipal Airport (KPEA) is a small general aviation airport located in Pella, IA, 37 mi east of Des Moines. It features 1 runway measuring 5,402 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

4 kts

170°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPEA 240535Z AUTO 17004KT 10SM CLR 17/15 A3008 RMK AO2 T01690155

Runways

1 installed

5,402 FT MAX

16/34

5,402 ft × 75

CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

53% of ops

96 land · 53 TO

47% of ops

86 land · 44 TO

Runway 16 carries 53% of operations (96 landings, 53 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

16 96 landings

UA 0%

34 86 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 16 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 96 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

11.7

flights/day · 351 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 7pm · 2pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–8pm local, averaging 11.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (11.8 vs 12.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 304 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	123.900	—
APCH	307.150	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	118.875	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Mag var:: 2° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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