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Pocahontas Municipal Airport

42.74280°N
-94.64730°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 300.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 33.3%

Pocahontas Municipal Airport (KPOH) is a small general aviation airport located in Pocahontas, IA, 95 mi north west of Des Moines. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,100 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 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

From KFOD, 27 mi away (KPOH does not publish METAR)

43m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
3 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFOD 270630Z AUTO 31003KT 10SM CLR 17/16 A3009 RMK T01700160 MADISHF

Runways

2 installed

4,100 FT MAX
12/30
4,100 ft × 60
CON● LITMED
18/36
1,999 ft × 135
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

30
53% of ops
17 land · 0 TO
29
19% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
18
12% of ops
4 land · 2 TO
36
9% of ops
3 land · 2 TO
11
3% of ops
1 land · 0 TO
12
3% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
Runway 30 carries 53% of operations (17 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 19%.

Approach quality

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

30 17 landings
UA 0%
29 6 landings
UA 0%
18 4 landings
UA 0%
36 3 landings
UA 0%
11 1 landings
UA 0%
12 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 17 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
1.6
flights/day · 48 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 4pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (2.2 vs 1.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

8 · 19%
8 · 19%
7 · 17%
2 · 5%
2 · 5%
2 · 5%
Activity is led by (19% of 42 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
OTHER 134.000 —
FORT DOD 134.000 —
OTHER 288.300 —
FORT DOD 288.300 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
2° E
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
doctordef
04/05/2011
Great service.
Gary McCartan is awesome. Bends over backwards to be of service to you as a pilot.
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