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Oroville Municipal Airport

39.48780°N
-121.62200°W
ARR / DAY
5
▼ 2.9%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 9.5%

Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE/OVE) is a small general aviation airport located in Oroville, CA, 20 mi south east of Chico. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,020 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 3 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
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1d ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
3 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KOVE 291853Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 31/12 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP112 T03110117

Runways

2 installed

6,020 FT MAX
02/20
6,020 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
13/31
3,540 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

30
29% of ops
79 land · 16 TO
01
26% of ops
70 land · 4 TO
12
18% of ops
48 land · 37 TO
31
8% of ops
21 land · 1 TO
02
7% of ops
19 land · 0 TO
19
7% of ops
18 land · 36 TO
Runway 30 carries 29% of operations (79 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

30 79 landings
UA 0%
01 70 landings
UA 0%
12 48 landings
UA 0%
31 21 landings
UA 0%
02 19 landings
UA 0%
19 18 landings
UA 17%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 79 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
7.8
flights/day · 235 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 5pm · 6pm
Day vs night
52%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 7.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (6.2 vs 8.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

74 · 41%
13 · 7%
8 · 4%
8 · 4%
7 · 4%
7 · 4%
Activity is led by (41% of 180 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 125.400 —
APCH 259.100 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
ASOS 121.425 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
16° E
Fuel:
100LL

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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
pilotal
8/28/2008
Eats
They have a good restaraunt at the golf course across from the fuel. They let us use their car but you could also taxi over to the restarant. The fuel was cheap and easy to get to. Self serve
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