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Council Bluffs Municipal Airport

41.25920°N
-95.76060°W
ARR / DAY
54
▼ 9.4%
DEP / DAY
67
▼ 3.1%

Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (KCBF/CBF) is a small general aviation airport located in Council Bluffs, IA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 54 arrivals and 67 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KOMA, 8 mi away (KCBF does not publish METAR)

39m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
7 kts
350°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KOMA 131130Z AUTO 35007KT 10SM FEW015 SCT120 11/09 A2992 RMK T01100090 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

36
33% of ops
411 land · 299 TO
18
32% of ops
395 land · 146 TO
32
23% of ops
279 land · 44 TO
14
12% of ops
154 land · 541 TO
Runway 36 carries 33% of operations (411 landings, 299 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

36 411 landings
UA 2%
18 395 landings
UA 4%
32 279 landings
UA 2%
14 154 landings
UA 5%
Approaches to 36 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 411 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
60.7
flights/day · 1,820 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 7pm · 5pm
Day vs night
59%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–9pm local, averaging 60.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (33.2 vs 74.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (88% of 1,692 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.725 —
APCH 124.500 —
APCH 263.000 —
UNICOM 122.725 —
AWOS 126.575 —
CD/P 127.675 —
OTHER 127.675 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
5° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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