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KLXV · LXV

Lake County Airport

39.22030°N

-106.31700°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 66.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 9.1%

Lake County Airport (KLXV/LXV) is a small general aviation airport located in Leadville, CO, 74 mi south west of Lakewood. It features 1 runway measuring 6,400 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2d ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

8 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

SPECI KLXV 300042Z AUTO 16008KT 10SM VCTS BKN070 OVC080 18/09 A3045 RMK AO2 PK WND 17027/0015 LTG DSNT E AND S RAB24E36 TSB06E25 P0000 T01830089

Runways

1 installed

6,400 FT MAX

16/34

6,400 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

76% of ops

19 land · 1 TO

24% of ops

6 land · 22 TO

Runway 34 carries 76% of operations (19 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

34 19 landings

UA 0%

16 6 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 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

1.5

flights/day · 45 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 8pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 1.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (2.1 vs 1.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 14%

4 · 9%

3 · 7%

Activity is led by (14% of 44 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	118.375	—
ASPEN RC	119.850	—
OTHER	119.850	—
ASPEN RC	363.150	—
OTHER	363.150	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDV
Mag var:: 9° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Tony

8/12/2007

9927 Ft Elevation

North America's highest airport - land here, buy the Tee shirt, get the certificate. Check the weather before you proceed, the mountains on both sides of the valley here exceed 14,000 Ft.

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