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📍 Mitchell⬆ 1,304 ft2 runways
KMHE · MHE

Mitchell Municipal Airport

43.77480°N
-98.03860°W
ARR / DAY
1
75.0%
DEP / DAY
1
700.0%

Mitchell Municipal Airport (KMHE/MHE) is a small general aviation airport located in Mitchell, SD, 68 mi west of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,701 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

Temp
Wind
Visib
Ceil

Runway intelligence

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

17
29% of ops
12 land · 2 TO
30
29% of ops
12 land · 12 TO
12
20% of ops
8 land · 1 TO
35
12% of ops
5 land · 3 TO
36
5% of ops
2 land · 0 TO
31
2% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
Runway 17 carries 29% of operations (12 landings, 2 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

17 12 landings
UA 8%
30 12 landings
UA 0%
12 8 landings
UA 0%
35 5 landings
UA 0%
36 2 landings
UA 0%
31 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 12 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)
2pm
also 3pm · 11am
Day vs night
80%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 11am–2pm local, averaging 1.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (1.5 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 42 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
ASOS 124.175
MITCHELL 122.300
OTHER 122.300
HURON RC 126.250
OTHER 126.250
HURON RC 339.800
OTHER 339.800
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
4° E
Fuel:
100LL
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