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KMEV · MEV

Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N

-119.75100°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 27.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 29.9%

Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV/MEV) is a small general aviation airport located in Minden, NV, 37 mi south of Reno. It features 3 runways with the longest being 7,400 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 23 arrivals and 23 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KTVL, 15 mi away (KMEV does not publish METAR)

42m ago

Temp

34°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTVL 121353Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW034 BKN044 OVC060 01/00 A2988 RMK AO2 RAE07B24E25UPB22E24SNB07E22 SLP100 P0002 T00110000 $

Runways

3 installed

7,400 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

444 land · 444 TO

22% of ops

188 land · 115 TO

15% of ops

132 land · 70 TO

11% of ops

99 land · 41 TO

Runway 34 carries 51% of operations (444 landings, 444 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

34 444 landings

UA 13%

30 188 landings

UA 3%

16 132 landings

UA 5%

12 99 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 34 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (56 UA events from 444 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

48.4

flights/day · 1,453 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 5pm · 4pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 48.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (50.8 vs 49.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 810 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	119.200	—
APCH	279.550	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
AWOS	119.325	—
CD/P	133.250	—
OTHER	133.250	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

9/25/2011

Great field

Slept the night here (in my plane). No close hotels but one of the best airport cafe's you could ever ask for. Small in a hanger pilot shop with great people. A real down home feel to the place. Stop and relax over a great meal at the Tail Dragger Restaurant.

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