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Van Slyke Field

9CO2 · Watkins, Colorado · Arapahoe County · map

Van Slyke Field is a private airport, 4 miles southeast of Watkins, Colorado, 5,400 feet above sea level. Its one runway, E/W, is 2,500 feet of grass and dirt.

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 9CO2
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
5,400 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
11E

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

EWN1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
E/W2,500 × 80 ftGrass and dirt
  • Runway W: right-hand traffic pattern

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
none reported
Repairs
none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Colorado Air And Space Port Airport (6 nm northwest), Denver International (13 nm northwest), Centennial Airport (19 nm southwest), Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (32 nm northwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Colorado Air And Space Port Airport (6 nm northwest), Denver International (13 nm northwest), Centennial Airport (19 nm southwest), Platte Valley Airpark (27 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 Watkins from the FAA register

50 aircraft are registered to owners in Watkins, Colorado: 19 piston singles, 11 piston twins, 8 business jets, 3 turboprops, 3 helicopters. 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:

Astre Air International 7Aerial Surveys International LLC 7Colorado Aircraft CORP 4Denver Aerospace Science Museum 3Ftg Leasing LLC 2Cwc Balloons LLC 2Bristol Bay Capital LLC 2Blue Sky Aviation LLC 2

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

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

Repair stations in Watkins:

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.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/9CO2.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 November 3, 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.