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📍 Eagle Lake⬆ 184 ft1 runways

KELA · ELA

Eagle Lake Airport

29.60060°N

-96.32190°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 44.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 10.0%

Eagle Lake Airport (KELA/ELA) is a small general aviation airport located in Eagle Lake, TX, 45 mi south west of Cypress. It features 1 runway measuring 3,801 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21h ago

Temp

86°F

Wind

11 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KELA 010035Z AUTO 14011KT 10SM CLR 30/24 A2993 RMK AO2 T03040236

Runways

1 installed

3,801 FT MAX

17/35

3,801 ft × 60

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

83% of ops

38 land · 9 TO

17% of ops

8 land · 7 TO

Runway 17 carries 83% of operations (38 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

17 38 landings

UA 0%

35 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 38 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

2.4

flights/day · 73 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 3pm · 12am

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–4pm local, averaging 2.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (4.1 vs 1.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 67 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—
APCH	124.225	—
APCH	306.975	—
AWOS	128.475	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Mag var:: 5° E
Fuel:: 100LL

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