What happens most

By year

20261 (0 fatal)
20253 (1 fatal)
20242 (0 fatal)
20232 (0 fatal)
20223 (1 fatal)
20213 (1 fatal)
20202 (0 fatal)
20193 (0 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20173 (0 fatal)
20152 (0 fatal)
20143 (1 fatal)
20132 (0 fatal)
20122 (0 fatal)
20111 (0 fatal)
20102 (0 fatal)
20093 (0 fatal)
20081 (0 fatal)
19951 (0 fatal)
19871 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown21
Landing11
Approach3
Climb3
Takeoff2
On the ground1

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 290 runway incursions at this airport, including 4 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2025-09-05 — Centennial Flyers (2 fatalities) — 1.6 km
2021-06-16 — Lancair Evolution (2 fatalities) — 7.0 km
2022-08-09 — PB&J HOLDING LLC (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2026-02-28 — Aspen Flying Club — 0.0 km
2025-03-16 — Hopeful Monster LLC — 0.0 km
2024-09-11 — ATP Flight School — 2.8 km
2023-05-06 — AMERICAN ASSET LEASING LLC — 0.7 km
2022-11-09 — 0.6 km
2022-05-06 — Mauna Hele — 0.5 km
2021-04-26 — Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum — 0.0 km
2020-11-06 — Independence Aviation LLC — 0.0 km
2020-08-08 — Aspen Flying Club — 1.5 km

Runways

17L/35R: 10,001 ft, ASP, lighted
17R/35L: 7,001 ft, ASP, lighted
10/28: 4,800 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 32.396 days/year
Thunderstorms: 53.393 days/year
Snow: 52.993 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.129% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.001% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes634

Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.