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Colonel James Jabara Airport

37.74760°N

-97.22110°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 15.8%

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 35 arrivals and 42 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 17 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

88°F

Wind

13 kts

200°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KAAO 121454Z AUTO 20013KT 10SM CLR 31/19 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP089 T03110189 53001

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

74% of ops

2,347 land · 2,414 TO

26% of ops

819 land · 923 TO

Runway 18 carries 74% of operations (2,347 landings, 2,414 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

18 2,347 landings

UA 12%

36 819 landings

UA 19%

Approaches to 18 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (286 UA events from 2,347 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

75.7

flights/day · 2,270 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 75.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (66.9 vs 82.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 1,733 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

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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