Sky Island Ranch Airport
3CO0 · Delta, Colorado · Delta County · map
Sky Island Ranch Airport is a private airport owned by Delta Montrose Electric Association, 4 miles east of Delta, Colorado, 5,300 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 2,900 feet of gravel and dirt.
The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.
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 3CO0
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Delta Montrose Electric Association
- Elevation
- 5,300 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1994
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,900 × 50 ft | Gravel and dirt | |
| 04/22 | 2,500 × 40 ft | Gravel and dirt | |
| 12/30 | 2,000 × 30 ft | Gravel and dirt |
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Blake Field (4 nm northwest), Montrose Regional (15 nm south), Grand Junction Regional (33 nm northwest), Hopkins Field (40 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Blake Field (4 nm northwest), Montrose Regional (15 nm south), North Fork Valley Airport (18 nm east), Grand Junction Regional (33 nm northwest).
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 Delta from the FAA register
24 aircraft are registered to owners in Delta, Colorado: 20 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Repair stations in Delta:
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
- Aircraft registered in Delta 24 aircraft · 20 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 piston twins
- Western Slope Aviators LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Double Lazy H LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Positech International LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,857 since 1982 · 381 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3CO0.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 30, 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.