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Ottawa Municipal Airport

38.53870°N
-95.25300°W
ARR / DAY
4
▲ 300.0%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 200.0%

Ottawa Municipal Airport (KOWI) is a small general aviation airport located in Ottawa, KS, 33 mi south west of Olathe. It features 3 runways with the longest being 4,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

9m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
6 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KOWI 140935Z AUTO 20006KT 10SM CLR 24/21 A2989 RMK A01

Runways

3 installed

4,500 FT MAX
05/23
2,345 ft × 81
GRS○ unlit
13/31
1,900 ft × 72
GRS○ unlit
17/35
4,500 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

17
32% of ops
63 land · 13 TO
23
26% of ops
52 land · 17 TO
35
14% of ops
28 land · 15 TO
13
12% of ops
23 land · 5 TO
05
9% of ops
18 land · 5 TO
31
8% of ops
16 land · 0 TO
Runway 17 carries 32% of operations (63 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

17 63 landings
UA 8%
23 52 landings
UA 0%
35 28 landings
UA 7%
13 23 landings
UA 0%
05 18 landings
UA 33%
31 16 landings
UA 25%
Approaches to 17 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 63 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
5.9
flights/day · 176 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 4pm
Day vs night
72%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 5.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (8.0 vs 5.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

24 · 17%
20 · 14%
13 · 9%
11 · 8%
9 · 6%
7 · 5%
Activity is led by (17% of 144 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 118.250 —
OTHER 127.725 —
EMPORIA 127.725 —
OTHER 270.250 —
EMPORIA 270.250 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Mag var:
4° 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
AlanM70
6/30/2022
Stopped over to deliver parts.
Nice airport. Nice courtesy car that they allowed us to reserve ahead of time.
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