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Morning Shadows Ranch Airport

CD69 · South Fork, Colorado · Rio Grande County · map

Morning Shadows Ranch Airport is a private airport, 7 miles northeast of South Fork, Colorado, 8,300 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 4,400 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes
FAA CD69
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
8,300 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
On the chart
Denver sectional
Magnetic variation
12E
In the FAA's files since
March 1988

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1634N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
16/344,400 × 80 ftGrass

Aircraft registered in South Fork from the FAA register

7 aircraft are registered to owners in South Fork, Colorado: 6 piston singles, 1 helicopter. 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

2012-02-18CEN12CA160 · Cessna 180 N56180 · 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

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.