Calhan Airport
5V4 · Calhan, Colorado · El Paso County · map
Calhan Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile north of Calhan, Colorado, 6,450 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,565 feet of grass and gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5V4
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 6,450 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1978
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,565 × 50 ft | Grass and gravel, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 17: tri-color on the left, pole 22 ft high 432 ft from the end
- Runway 35: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 35 ft high 116 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 |
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Aircraft registered in Calhan from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Calhan, Colorado: 9 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 7 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided a NON-STD RIGHT-HAND traffic pattern is conducted to runway 35.
- South end of runway has side slope. -6 feet ditch 40 feet west of centerline. Ground rises on east side of runway.
- Dusk to dawn. Activate non-standard low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 and VASI runway 17 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 17/35 non-standard low-intensity runway lights. North 3000 feet runway lighted.
- Width varies from 50 feet to 100 feet.
- Runway 17 first 1250 feet 45 feet wide artificial grass.
- Aerobatic practice area ONE-HALF mile west of runway 17/35 300 feet above ground level to 10000 feet above sea level.
- Vehicles crossing runway.
- Runway 17 has 25 feet P-POLE 400 feet from thld, 110 feet R of centerline.
- Be alert; intensive usaf student training in vicinity of Colorado springs and pueblo Colorado.
- Runway 17/35 has +15 feet road 110 feet from and parallel to runway centerline west side of runway - full length.
- Runway 35 has 4 feet fence 200 feet from thld OB; appx 20 feet trees 70 feet west of centerline for first 500 feet of runway; appx 25 feet P-LINE 850 feet from thld OB; appx 2 feet burm at runway thld.
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.