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KPPO · LPO

La Porte Municipal Airport

41.57250°N
-86.73450°W
ARR / DAY
10
27.3%
DEP / DAY
12
52.8%

La Porte Municipal Airport (KPPO/LPO) is a small general aviation airport located in La Porte, IN, 26 mi west of South Bend. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 12 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KVPZ, 16 mi away (KPPO does not publish METAR)

20m ago
Temp
78°F
Wind
3 kts
10°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KVPZ 302056Z AUTO 01003KT 10SM FEW080 OVC110 26/21 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP173 T02560206 53005

Runway intelligence

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

20
44% of ops
104 land · 100 TO
02
41% of ops
96 land · 48 TO
14
8% of ops
19 land · 3 TO
32
7% of ops
17 land · 19 TO
Runway 20 carries 44% of operations (104 landings, 100 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

20 104 landings
UA 9%
02 96 landings
UA 9%
14 19 landings
UA 16%
32 17 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 20 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (9 UA events from 104 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
11.1
flights/day · 332 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 4pm · 3pm
Day vs night
62%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 11.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (11.0 vs 11.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 275 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
APCH 132.050
APCH 257.800
UNICOM 123.000
AWOS 119.825
OTHER 135.900
GOSHEN R 135.900
OTHER 314.000
GOSHEN R 314.000
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Elevation:
812 ft
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 21:16 UTC