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KPIL ·

Port Isabel Cameron County Airport

26.16620°N
-97.34590°W
ARR / DAY
6
16.7%
DEP / DAY
1
40.0%

Port Isabel Cameron County Airport (KPIL) is a small general aviation airport located in Port Isabel, TX, 20 mi north east of Brownsville. It features 4 runways with the longest being 8,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

just now
Temp
88°F
Wind
14 kts
120°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KPIL 312353Z AUTO 12014KT 10SM CLR 31/25 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP124 60000 T03060250 10356 20306 56007

Runway intelligence

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

08
45% of ops
106 land · 1 TO
13
43% of ops
102 land · 2 TO
17
6% of ops
15 land · 2 TO
21
3% of ops
7 land · 0 TO
26
1% of ops
2 land · 2 TO
03
1% of ops
2 land · 5 TO
Runway 08 carries 45% of operations (106 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 43%.

Approach quality

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

08 106 landings
UA 1%
13 102 landings
UA 2%
17 15 landings
UA 0%
21 7 landings
UA 14%
26 2 landings
UA 0%
03 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 08 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 106 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
10.0
flights/day · 300 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 5pm · 2pm
Day vs night
61%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 10.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (7.9 vs 11.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 200 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
APCH 119.500
APCH 257.600
UNICOM 122.800
ASOS 118.525
OTHER 119.200
CD/P 119.200
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZHU
Mag var:
5° 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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 23:20 UTC