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KPPO · LPO

La Porte Municipal Airport

41.57250°N
-86.73450°W
ARR / DAY
12
9.1%
DEP / DAY
11
7.3%

La Porte Municipal Airport (KPPO/LPO) is a small general aviation airport located in La Porte, IN, 26 mi west of South Bend. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 12 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

17m ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
5 kts
60°
Visib
8047 m
Ceil
METAR KPPO 191435Z AUTO 06005KT 5SM BR CLR 21/21 A3006 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

02
45% of ops
574 land · 317 TO
20
38% of ops
490 land · 457 TO
14
9% of ops
111 land · 13 TO
32
9% of ops
110 land · 87 TO
Runway 02 carries 45% of operations (574 landings, 317 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

02 574 landings
UA 6%
20 490 landings
UA 8%
14 111 landings
UA 22%
32 110 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 02 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (33 UA events from 574 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
16.3
flights/day · 490 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 9pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–9pm local, averaging 16.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (18.2 vs 16.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (37% of 388 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
APCH 132.050
APCH 257.800
UNICOM 123.000
AWOS 119.825
OTHER 135.900
GOSHEN R 135.900
OTHER 314.000
GOSHEN R 314.000
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Elevation:
812 ft
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL, MOGAS

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 14:52 UTC