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Dry Pen Airport

16CO · Parachute, Colorado · Garfield County · map

Dry Pen Airport is a private airport, 3 miles southwest of Parachute, Colorado, 5,331 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 1,800 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 16CO
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 5,331 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
In the FAA's files since: May 2007

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
09/27	1,800 × 65 ft	Grass

Runway 09: fence 4 ft high 300 ft from the end
Runway 27: power line 20 ft high 700 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Parachute from the FAA register

8 aircraft are registered to owners in Parachute, Colorado: 8 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Colorado.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Rifle Garfield County RIL · 18 nm northeast Grand Junction Regional GJT · 27 nm southwest Juniper Hills Airport CO29 · 1 nm south · private Grand Valley Heliport CD56 · 1 nm northwest · private Phylcon Ranch Airport 9CO9 · 17 nm south · private Rifle Junction Heliport CO85 · 17 nm northeast · private Rio Blanco Heliport CD66 · 19 nm north · private Lands End Microwave Heliport 1CO6 · 20 nm south · private

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 5, 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.