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Pocahontas Municipal Airport

42.74280°N
-94.64730°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 250.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 0.0%

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)

29m ago
Temp
68°F
Wind
5 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFOD 250556Z AUTO 17005KT 10SM OVC060 20/15 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP197 T02000150 10233 20200 51008 $

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

29
35% of ops
18 land · 0 TO
30
31% of ops
16 land · 0 TO
18
19% of ops
10 land · 5 TO
36
10% of ops
5 land · 1 TO
11
4% of ops
2 land · 1 TO
12
2% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
Runway 29 carries 35% of operations (18 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

29 18 landings
UA 0%
30 16 landings
UA 0%
18 10 landings
UA 0%
36 5 landings
UA 0%
11 2 landings
UA 0%
12 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 29 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 18 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
3.0
flights/day · 89 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 1pm · 2pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 3.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.1× weekday (5.0 vs 2.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

18 · 27%
13 · 19%
8 · 12%
7 · 10%
5 · 7%
2 · 3%
Activity is led by (27% of 67 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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