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Pocahontas Municipal Airport

42.74280°N
-94.64730°W
ARR / DAY
3
▼ 40.0%
DEP / DAY
6
▼ 14.3%

Pocahontas Municipal Airport (KPOH) is a small general aviation airport located in Pocahontas, IA, 95 mi north west of Des Moines. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,100 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 6 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

From KFOD, 27 mi away (KPOH does not publish METAR)

19m ago
Temp
71°F
Wind
3 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFOD 290556Z AUTO 21003KT 9SM CLR 22/22 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP147 T02170217 10289 20217 53004 $

Runways

2 installed

4,100 FT MAX
12/30
4,100 ft × 60
CON● LITMED
18/36
1,999 ft × 135
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

29
39% of ops
43 land · 7 TO
36
23% of ops
25 land · 2 TO
11
17% of ops
18 land · 5 TO
18
13% of ops
14 land · 9 TO
30
6% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
12
3% of ops
3 land · 0 TO
Runway 29 carries 39% of operations (43 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

29 43 landings
UA 9%
36 25 landings
UA 8%
11 18 landings
UA 6%
18 14 landings
UA 14%
30 6 landings
UA 0%
12 3 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 29 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 43 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 · 178 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 (8.1 vs 5.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

43 · 37%
20 · 17%
12 · 10%
7 · 6%
7 · 6%
4 · 3%
Activity is led by (37% of 116 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
OTHER 134.000 —
FORT DOD 134.000 —
OTHER 288.300 —
FORT DOD 288.300 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
2° 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
doctordef
4/5/2011
Great service.
Gary McCartan is awesome. Bends over backwards to be of service to you as a pilot.
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