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Gila Bend Municipal Airport

32.95810°N
-112.67800°W
ARR / DAY
6
25.0%
DEP / DAY
4
0.0%

Gila Bend Municipal Airport (KE63) is a small general aviation airport located in Gila Bend, AZ, 49 mi south west of Phoenix. It features 1 runway measuring 5,200 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KLUF, 43 mi away (KE63 does not publish METAR)

58m ago
Temp
87°F
Wind
6 kts
150°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLUF 140555Z 15006KT 10SM BKN180 30/18 A2986 RMK AO2A SLP096 T03030184 10377 20303 51021 $

Runways

1 installed

5,200 FT MAX
04/22
5,200 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

22
73% of ops
966 land · 938 TO
04
27% of ops
359 land · 349 TO
Runway 22 carries 73% of operations (966 landings, 938 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

22 966 landings
UA 9%
04 359 landings
UA 19%
Approaches to 22 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (89 UA events from 966 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
17.5
flights/day · 525 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 6pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 17.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (16.8 vs 18.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 488 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAB
Mag var:
13° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
rstan
6/15/2020
Cheap Fuel
unmanned but good FBO
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