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St Landry Parish Ahart Field

30.55840°N
-92.09940°W
ARR / DAY
4
100.0%
DEP / DAY
3
0.0%

St Landry Parish Ahart Field (KOPL) is a small general aviation airport located in Opelousas, LA, 24 mi north of Lafayette. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,849 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21h ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KOPL 150855Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/23 A3004 RMK AO2 T02350231

Runway intelligence

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

36
29% of ops
52 land · 37 TO
06
23% of ops
42 land · 6 TO
18
16% of ops
29 land · 23 TO
29
14% of ops
25 land · 8 TO
24
10% of ops
18 land · 17 TO
11
7% of ops
13 land · 2 TO
Runway 36 carries 29% of operations (52 landings, 37 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 06 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

36 52 landings
UA 0%
06 42 landings
UA 2%
18 29 landings
UA 0%
29 25 landings
UA 0%
24 18 landings
UA 17%
11 13 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 36 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 52 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
7.4
flights/day · 222 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 4pm · 7pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–7pm local, averaging 7.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (7.5 vs 7.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 184 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
APCH 128.700
APCH 268.700
UNICOM 123.000
AWOS 118.775
OTHER 126.350
LAFAYETT 126.350
OTHER 338.250
LAFAYETT 338.250
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZHU
Mag var:
1° E
Fuel:
100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 05:58 UTC