Pella Municipal
PEA · KPEA · Pella, Iowa · Marion County · map
Pella Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Pella, 1 mile west of Pella, Iowa, 885 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 5,402 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 30 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 12,250 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KPEA · observed 5:35 pm CDT (22:35 UTC), 19 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (210°) at 11 knots, gusting to 15
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 78°F (26°C), dew point 56°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 29.87 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KPEA 062235Z AUTO 21011G15KT 10SM CLR 26/13 A2987 RMK AO2 T02570134
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PEA · ICAO KPEA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Pella
- Elevation
- 885 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 816 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 7:00 am to dusk; Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1968
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 5,402 × 75 ft | Concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 199 ft, 5,003 ft available for landing, tree 32 ft high 527 ft from the end
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, 5,003 ft available for landing, trees 31 ft high 474 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.9 | |
| Pea and aWOS-3 | 118.875 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 641-628-3459.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 12,250, 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.
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 Pella from the FAA register
40 aircraft are registered to owners in Pella, Iowa: 28 piston singles, 4 balloons, 3 drones, 2 helicopters, 2 business jets. 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 Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Provided each approach is maintd for minimum 20:1 glide slope and trsnl surface maintd for 7:1 slope.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 preset low intst; to increase intst and activate PAPI runway 16 and 34; runway end identifier lights runways 16 and 34 - the common traffic frequency.
- Only applies to NON-TURBINE aircraft.
- Runway 16 approach slp to dthr 22:1.
- Runway 34 approach slp to dthr 21:1.
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.