Colonel James Jabara Airport satellite view

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KAAO ·

Colonel James Jabara Airport

37.74760°N

-97.22110°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 41.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 34.7%

Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 6,101 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 39 arrivals and 47 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

10m ago

Temp

34°F

Wind

5 kts

40°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KAAO 130754Z AUTO 04005KT 10SM CLR 01/M02 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP213 T00061022

Runways

1 installed

6,101 FT MAX

18/36

6,101 ft × 100

CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

71% of ops

855 land · 852 TO

29% of ops

349 land · 477 TO

Runway 18 carries 71% of operations (855 landings, 852 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

18 855 landings

UA 11%

36 349 landings

UA 13%

Approaches to 18 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (96 UA events from 855 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

67.6

flights/day · 2,027 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 67.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (54.0 vs 76.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 1,555 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	134.800	—
APCH	269.100	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
ASOS	134.025	—
CD/P	125.000	—
OTHER	125.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 6° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Tony

2/3/2008

Good Fuel Stop at Wichita

There is a full-service FBO here. The airport is at the north edge of town, away from the complicated airspace around the other (12+?) airports at Wichita. Fuel is expensive, but they have lots of hangars in case of thunderstorms during an overnight stop. Lots of hotels with shuttles to pick you up.

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