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KPEA ·

Pella Municipal Airport

41.40010°N

-92.94590°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 5.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 2.3%

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 5 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDSM, 38 mi away (KPEA does not publish METAR)

34m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

4 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDSM 270954Z 30004KT 10SM CLR 17/16 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP176 T01720156

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

51% of ops

92 land · 58 TO

49% of ops

90 land · 46 TO

Runway 16 carries 51% of operations (92 landings, 58 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

16 92 landings

UA 0%

34 90 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 16 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 92 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

11.6

flights/day · 349 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 11.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (9.5 vs 13.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 306 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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