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Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N
-119.75100°W
ARR / DAY
27
▼ 30.5%
DEP / DAY
24
▼ 37.8%

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 7,400 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 27 arrivals and 24 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
1

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

just now
Temp
55°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KMEV 140715Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM 13/11 A3006 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

7,400 FT MAX
12/30
5,300 ft × 75
ASPH-G○ unlit
12G/30G
2,200 ft × 60
DIRT-G○ unlit
16/34
7,400 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

34
42% of ops
735 land · 684 TO
30
29% of ops
505 land · 349 TO
16
20% of ops
351 land · 153 TO
12
9% of ops
157 land · 75 TO
Runway 34 carries 42% of operations (735 landings, 684 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

34 735 landings
UA 10%
30 505 landings
UA 5%
16 351 landings
UA 8%
12 157 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (72 UA events from 735 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
59.8
flights/day · 1,795 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 7pm · 4pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 59.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (89.0 vs 51.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

219 · 22%
117 · 12%
83 · 8%
74 · 7%
67 · 7%
50 · 5%
Activity is led by (22% of 993 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

peak 11 AM · 1 movement every 327 s
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)

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PilotBobSenior
9/25/2011
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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