Dove Creek Airport
8V6 · Dove Creek, Colorado · Dolores County · map
Dove Creek Airport is a public-use airport owned by Dove Creek Airport INC, 1 mile east of Dove Creek, Colorado, 6,975 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 4,200 feet of dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8V6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Dove Creek Airport INC
- Elevation
- 6,975 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 725 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1944
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,200 × 50 ft | Dirt, fair |
- Runway 01: road 11 ft high 150 ft from the end
- Runway 19: road 19 ft high 51 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Dove Creek from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Dove Creek, Colorado: 2 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 · 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Pattern altitude 7700 above sea level.
- Soft when wet; -3FT ditch along both sides; +4 feet bushes various locations 15 feet from runway edge.
- +4 feet fence 0 feet from and parrallel to threshold; +15 feet road 80 feet from and parallel to threshold; +30 feet trees 189 feet from threshold; approach ration 0:1.
- +12 feet gnd 258 feet R of centerline parallel to extdd centerline first 500 feet.
- Rodent holes throughout.
- Airport closed when snow covered.
- Vehicles on airport.
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.