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KRRQ ·

Rock Rapids Municipal Airport

43.45220°N

-96.17980°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 20.0%

Rock Rapids Municipal Airport (KRRQ) is a small general aviation airport located in Rock Rapids, IA, 28 mi east of Sioux Falls. It features 1 runway measuring 3,097 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

Current weather

From KLYV, 12 mi away (KRRQ does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

86°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLYV 312355Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 30/13 A2992 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

3,097 FT MAX

16/34

3,097 ft × 50

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

13 land · 2 TO

35% of ops

7 land · 4 TO

Runway 16 carries 65% of operations (13 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

16 13 landings

UA 0%

34 7 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 16 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 13 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

0.8

flights/day · 23 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 4pm · 8pm

Day vs night

74%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 0.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.1× weekday (0.1 vs 1.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 30%

3 · 13%

2 · 9%

Activity is led by (30% of 23 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	126.900	—
APCH	284.725	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
SIOUX FA	132.050	—
OTHER	132.050	—
SIOUX FA	317.400	—
OTHER	317.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Elevation:: 1,363 ft
Mag var:: 5° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

AlanM70

06/02/2026

Nice airport

Did not notice a Curtesy car, but we had a vehicle waiting so did not look around for one. It was drizzly and rainy also, so we got the plane covered and left.

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