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📍 Eagle Lake⬆ 184 ft1 runways

KELA · ELA

Eagle Lake Airport

29.60060°N

-96.32190°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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 4,280 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

90°F

Wind

3 kts

220°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KELA 271655Z AUTO 22003KT 10SM SCT033 32/24 A3000 RMK AO2 T03190236

Runways

1 installed

4,280 FT MAX

17/35

4,280 ft × 60

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

100% of ops

78 land · 1 TO

0% of ops

0 land · 23 TO

Runway 17 carries 100% of operations (78 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 0%.

Approach quality

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

17 78 landings

UA 0%

35 0 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 78 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

1.7

flights/day · 50 total

Busy hour (local)

10pm

also 1pm · 3pm

Day vs night

50%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–10pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.5 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 41 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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