Cottonwood Field
09CO · Swink, Colorado · Otero County · map
Cottonwood Field is a private airport, 3 miles northwest of Swink, Colorado, 4,180 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 09CO
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 4,180 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Wichita sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1979
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,200 × 50 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: LA Junta Municipal (7 nm east), Pueblo Memorial (42 nm west), Southeast Colorado Regional (46 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: LA Junta Municipal (7 nm east), Pueblo Memorial (42 nm west), Southeast Colorado Regional (46 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Colorado · avgas.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Swink from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Swink, CO as the owner's town.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Prairie Flyers 1 aircraft · Rocky Ford, 4 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,857 since 1982 · 381 in the last ten years
- Prairie Flyers 1 aircraft · flight school
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 6 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
- Colorado 7,453 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/09CO.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 28, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.