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St Landry Parish Ahart Field

30.55840°N
-92.09940°W
ARR / DAY
4
0.0%
DEP / DAY
3
32.3%

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 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago
Temp
95°F
Wind
11 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KOPL 132035Z AUTO 20011G16KT 10SM CLR 35/22 A3001 RMK AO2 T03530217

Runway intelligence

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

36
31% of ops
83 land · 42 TO
18
17% of ops
44 land · 41 TO
06
17% of ops
44 land · 9 TO
29
13% of ops
35 land · 9 TO
24
12% of ops
31 land · 19 TO
11
11% of ops
29 land · 0 TO
Runway 36 carries 31% of operations (83 landings, 42 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

36 83 landings
UA 5%
18 44 landings
UA 0%
06 44 landings
UA 2%
29 35 landings
UA 3%
24 31 landings
UA 13%
11 29 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 36 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 83 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
7.5
flights/day · 225 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 4pm
Day vs night
62%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 7.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (7.1 vs 8.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 179 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 23:03 UTC