Arco-Butte County
AOC · KAOC · Arco, Idaho · Butte County · map
Arco-Butte County is a public-use airport owned by the City of Arco and Butte County, 3 miles southwest of Arco, Idaho, 5,334 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 4,801 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 7 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 7,150 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AOC · ICAO KAOC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Arco and Butte County
- Elevation
- 5,334 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Salt Lake City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 4,801 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, power line 35 ft high 1,800 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Blackfoot and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.35 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 7,150, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Arco from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Arco, Idaho: 2 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 Idaho.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 2 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
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- All incoming and departing traffic should use a left hand (left-hand) traffic pattern; pattern altitude is 1000' above ground level.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runways 06 and 24, PAPI runways 06 and 24, medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 06/24 runway end identifier lightss out of service indef.
- PAPI runways 06 and 24 out of service indefinitely.
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.