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57AZ ·

La Cholla Airpark

32.44663°N

-111.00290°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

La Cholla Airpark (57AZ) is a small general aviation airport located in Tucson, AZ, 16 mi north of Tucson. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,500 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDMA, 21 mi away (57AZ does not publish METAR)

32m ago

Temp

76°F

Wind

4 kts

130°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDMA 140755Z 13004KT 10SM FEW150 25/20 A3004 RMK AO2A SLP170 T02470197 TSNO $

Runways

2 installed

4,500 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

86% of ops

68 land · 15 TO

14% of ops

11 land · 0 TO

Runway 01 carries 86% of operations (68 landings, 15 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 14%.

Approach quality

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

01 68 landings

UA 18%

19 11 landings

UA 36%

Approaches to 01 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 68 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

3.1

flights/day · 92 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 3.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.5× weekday (5.6 vs 2.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 84 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.975	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAB
Elevation:: 2,953 ft
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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