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Pocahontas Municipal Airport

42.74280°N
-94.64730°W
ARR / DAY
0
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 0.0%

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 0 arrivals and 1 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)

55m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
12 kts
90°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFOD 161556Z AUTO 09012KT 10SM CLR 18/13 A3032 RMK AO2 SLP280 T01780128 $

Runways

2 installed

4,100 FT MAX
11/29
4,100 ft × 60
CON● LIT
18/36
1,950 ft × 135
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

30
46% of ops
19 land · 0 TO
29
39% of ops
16 land · 0 TO
36
10% of ops
4 land · 2 TO
18
2% of ops
1 land · 0 TO
12
2% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
11
0% of ops
0 land · 1 TO
Runway 30 carries 46% of operations (19 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

30 19 landings
UA 0%
29 16 landings
UA 0%
36 4 landings
UA 0%
18 1 landings
UA 0%
12 1 landings
UA 0%
11 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 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
1.5
flights/day · 45 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 5pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 1.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.2 vs 1.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

9 · 22%
4 · 10%
3 · 7%
3 · 7%
2 · 5%
2 · 5%
Activity is led by (22% of 41 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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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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