City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport safety profile
37 recorded occurrences at or near City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (1997–2026): 16 at the airport, 21 nearby; 3 fatal, 6 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 66 runway incursions at this airport, including 2 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2015-11-09 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2010-12-22 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2025-10-01 — Arapahoe Flight Club — 10.5 km
- 2024-08-02 — Adventures Out West — 0.0 km
- 2024-06-11 — Rocky Mountain Flight Training Center — 0.0 km
- 2024-05-31 — RPB AERO LLC — 0.0 km
- 2021-04-15 — MEDWAY AIR AMBULANCE LLC — 0.0 km
- 2020-04-26 — 0.0 km
- 2019-09-11 — Rocky Mountain Flight School — 0.0 km
- 2018-11-20 — Peak Aviation — 0.0 km
- 2018-04-15 — Fly Elite Aviation — 0.9 km
- 2017-08-03 — Beech D17S — 1.3 km
Runways
- 17L/35R: 13,500 ft, CON, lighted
- 17R/35L: 11,022 ft, ASP, lighted
- 12/30: 8,272 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 39.395 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 69.191 days/year
- Snow: 52.293 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.395% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0.013% of observations
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.