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Hopkins Field

AIB · KAIB · Nucla, Colorado · Montrose County · map

Hopkins Field is a public-use airport owned by the County of Montrose, 2 miles southwest of Nucla, Colorado, 5,945 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 5,212 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).

The airport

Codes: FAA AIB · ICAO KAIB
Kind: Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: County of Montrose
Elevation: 5,945 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
Fuel: 100LL avgas, Jet A
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Denver sectional
Magnetic variation: 11E
In the FAA's files since: September 1946

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
05/23	5,212 × 75 ft	Asphalt, excellent	Medium-intensity lights
11/29	4,000 × 80 ft	Grass and dirt, poor

Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left
Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 18 ft high 570 ft from the end
Runway 11: road 6 ft high 100 ft from the end
Runway 29: fence 3 ft high 56 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM	122.8
Montrose and center (remote transmitter) Low	127.1
Aib and aWOS-3P	132.525

Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 970-864-2325.

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Aircraft registered in Nucla from the FAA register

2 aircraft are registered to owners in Nucla, 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 · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

2013-08-12CEN13LA488 · Griffith E/Boyd W e Lancair 360 N15EG · accident · no injuries

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

Basin Clinic Heliport 38CO · 1 nm southwest · private Williams Ranch Airport 1CO2 · 11 nm southeast · private Norwood Junction Heliport CD55 · 16 nm southeast · private Flying M & M Ranch Airport 0CO6 · 17 nm east · private Raspberry Heliport CD54 · 18 nm east · private Egnar Heliport CD36 · 25 nm southwest · private Placerville Heliport CD59 · 28 nm southeast · private Elk Mountain Resort Heliport 2CD5 · 28 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Runway end identifier lights runway 05 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 5/23 - dusk to dawn, incr intst - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 05 and 23 on continuously.
Fuel SELF-SERVICE available 24 hours.
PAPI unusable beyond 5.0 NM.
Mult large rodent holes.
40 feet power lines in hangar area.
Migtatory birds, wildlife and deer on or in the vicinity of 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.