Colorado Plains Regional Airport satellite view

📍 Akron⬆ 4,714 ft1 runways

KAKO · AKO

Colorado Plains Regional Airport

40.17560°N

-103.22200°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 29.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Colorado Plains Regional Airport (KAKO/AKO) is a small general aviation airport located in Akron, CO, 80 mi east of Greeley. It features 1 runway measuring 7,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

7,000 FT MAX

11/29

7,000 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

92% of ops

175 land · 8 TO

8% of ops

15 land · 63 TO

Runway 11 carries 92% of operations (175 landings, 8 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 8%.

Approach quality

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

11 175 landings

UA 0%

29 15 landings

UA 13%

Approaches to 11 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 175 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

8.5

flights/day · 255 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 3pm · 6pm

Day vs night

73%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 8.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (7.5 vs 9.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (44% of 216 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	135.475	—
AKRON RC	122.200	—
OTHER	122.200	—
BRUSH/A/	133.950	—
OTHER	133.950	—
BRUSH/A/	317.550	—
OTHER	317.550	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDV
Elevation:: 4,716 ft
Mag var:: 10° E
Fuel:: 100LL, A1

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

XingR

7/29/2007

Many should add this after 8 Sep 2007

haven't had the pleasure of visiting here yet but there's a great show scheduled for 8 Sep 2007 .. classic radials, fancy cars and lots of fun.

Aviatrix

7/27/2007

Strange juxtaposition

First time I ever saw tumbleweed caught in a snowbank.

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