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Pocahontas Municipal Airport

42.74280°N
-94.64730°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 33.3%
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 1 arrivals and 1 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

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

42m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
6 kts
150°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFOD 162330Z AUTO 15006KT 10SM FEW019 OVC026 21/17 A3023 RMK T02100170 MADISHF

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
47% of ops
18 land · 0 TO
29
37% of ops
14 land · 0 TO
36
11% of ops
4 land · 2 TO
18
3% of ops
1 land · 0 TO
12
3% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
11
0% of ops
0 land · 1 TO
Runway 30 carries 47% of operations (18 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

30 18 landings
UA 0%
29 14 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 18 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
1.4
flights/day · 43 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 2pm · 5pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 1.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.2 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 18%
4 · 10%
3 · 8%
3 · 8%
2 · 5%
2 · 5%
Activity is led by (18% of 39 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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