📍 Minden⬆ 4,722 ft3 runways

KMEV · MEV

Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N

-119.75100°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 49.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 59.6%

Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV/MEV) is a small general aviation airport located in Minden, NV, 37 mi south of Reno. It features 3 runways with the longest being 7,399 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 16 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

6 kts

90°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMEV 250455Z AUTO 09006KT 10SM CLR 22/06 A3010 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

7,399 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

47% of ops

1,268 land · 1,138 TO

25% of ops

665 land · 434 TO

18% of ops

483 land · 145 TO

11% of ops

296 land · 196 TO

Runway 34 carries 47% of operations (1,268 landings, 1,138 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

34 1,268 landings

UA 10%

30 665 landings

UA 4%GA 0.2%

16 483 landings

UA 3%GA 0.8%

12 296 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (128 UA events from 1,268 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

54.6

flights/day · 1,639 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 54.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (61.8 vs 54.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 866 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	119.200	—
APCH	279.550	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
AWOS	119.325	—
CD/P	133.250	—
OTHER	133.250	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

09/25/2011

Great field

Slept the night here (in my plane). No close hotels but one of the best airport cafe's you could ever ask for. Small in a hanger pilot shop with great people. A real down home feel to the place. Stop and relax over a great meal at the Tail Dragger Restaurant.

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