📍 Minden⬆ 4,722 ft3 runways

KMEV · MEV

Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N

-119.75100°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 12.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 23.1%

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 7,399 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 38 arrivals and 38 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

10m ago

Temp

75°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMEV 070335Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/07 A3006 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

7,399 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

49% of ops

488 land · 434 TO

25% of ops

247 land · 125 TO

14% of ops

134 land · 55 TO

12% of ops

120 land · 120 TO

Runway 34 carries 49% of operations (488 landings, 434 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

34 488 landings

UA 22%

30 247 landings

UA 10%

16 134 landings

UA 7%GA 0.7%

12 120 landings

UA 2%GA 0.8%

Approaches to 34 show a 22% unstable-approach rate (106 UA events from 488 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

55.5

flights/day · 1,664 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 4pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 55.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (71.1 vs 52.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 932 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

09/25/2011

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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