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Colorado Springs East Airport

38.87440°N
-104.41000°W
ARR / DAY
3
0.0%
DEP / DAY
3
50.0%

Colorado Springs East Airport (KA50) is a small general aviation airport located in Ellicott, CO, 22 mi east of Colorado Springs. It features 3 runways with the longest being 4,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KCOS, 16 mi away (KA50 does not publish METAR)

54m ago
Temp
52°F
Wind
4 kts
90°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KCOS 161054Z 09004KT 10SM BKN190 11/07 A3028 RMK AO2 SLP196 T01110072 $

Runway intelligence

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

35L
42% of ops
59 land · 20 TO
17R
29% of ops
41 land · 29 TO
08
23% of ops
32 land · 2 TO
26
7% of ops
10 land · 2 TO
Runway 35L carries 42% of operations (59 landings, 20 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17R at 29%.

Approach quality

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

35L 59 landings
UA 10%
17R 41 landings
UA 0%
08 32 landings
UA 0%
26 10 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 35L show a 10% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 59 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
6.2
flights/day · 185 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 3pm · 2pm
Day vs night
84%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 6.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (6.5 vs 6.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 161 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 11:48 UTC