Waimea-Kohala Airport
MUE · PHMU · Kamuela, Hawaii · Hawaii County · map
Waimea-Kohala Airport is a public-use airport owned by the State of Hawaii Airports Div, 1 mile southwest of Kamuela, Hawaii, 2,671 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 5,197 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MUE · ICAO PHMU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- State of Hawaii Airports Div
- Elevation
- 2,671 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 7:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Hawaiian Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1953
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 5,197 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: VASI, four boxes on the right, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 22: VASI, four boxes on the left, fence 9 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Haleakala and center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 118.45 | |
| Mue and aWOS-3PT | 120.0 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 808-887-8127.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Kamuela from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Kamuela, Hawaii: 6 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 drone. 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Hawaii.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 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
- <pattern altitude small aircraft 3500' above sea level. Large aircraft 4200' above sea level.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- +4' trrn 165' southeast centerline and 0' from threshold both ends runway 4-22.
- Runway 4 VASI unusable beyond 8 degrees left centerline.
- Runway 22 VASI unusable beyond 5 degrees L/R centerline.
- Occasional flocks of pigeons on airport and near runway 04/22.
- Prior permission required for transient parking.
- All helicopters confine operations to paved areas only.
- Runway 04 30 feet trees 275 feet R of centerline 3000 feet from approach end runway.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.