Monte Vista Municipal
MVI · KMVI · Monte Vista, Colorado · Rio Grande County · map
Monte Vista Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Monte Vista, 5 miles southeast of Monte Vista, Colorado, 7,611 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 02/20, is 5,902 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MVI · ICAO KMVI
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Monte Vista
- Elevation
- 7,611 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; weekends, on to call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1955
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 5,902 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 16/34 | 2,300 × 30 ft | Dirt, fair | |
| 10/28 | 2,100 × 50 ft | Dirt, fair |
- Runway 02: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 20: PAPI, two lights on the left, power line 29 ft high 1,085 ft from the end
- Runway 34: fence 8 ft high 218 ft from the end
- Runway 10: fence 4 ft high 69 ft from the end
- Runway 28: trees 43 ft high 107 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Alamosa and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.375 |
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Aircraft registered in Monte Vista from the FAA register
23 aircraft are registered to owners in Monte Vista, Colorado: 17 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 business jets, 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 Colorado.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 since 1982, 0 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
- No RECORD-ARPT has had faap.
- Activate PAPI runway 02 and 20; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- Service aft hour - amgr.
- Soft shoulders.
- +2 feet dirt windrow alg north edge; vegetation thrut runway.
- +2 feet dirt windrows and 3+ feet vegetation alg edges.
- 430 feet dirt swy on north end.
- 4 feet fence 280 feet from runway end 4 feet below runway end elev.
- +20 feet ant 700 feet from threshold 215 feet R of centerline.
- +23 feet railroad 1110 feet from threshold L and R.
- +30 feet pwr line 534 feet from threshold; +40 feet trees 345 feet from threshold 230 R of centerline.
- Haystack
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.