What happens most

By year

20261 (0 fatal)
20251 (0 fatal)
20246 (0 fatal)
20235 (0 fatal)
20224 (0 fatal)
20212 (0 fatal)
20203 (1 fatal)
20192 (1 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20162 (1 fatal)
20151 (0 fatal)
20145 (0 fatal)
20134 (0 fatal)
20122 (1 fatal)
20114 (0 fatal)
20102 (0 fatal)
20091 (0 fatal)
20084 (1 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown24
Landing8
Climb7
Cruise3
Maneuvering3
Approach2
Takeoff2
On the ground1

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 277 runway incursions at this airport, including 5 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2008-04-23 — Carlton Cadwell Lancair IV-P, Boehle Aviation LLC (3 fatalities) — 1.7 km
2019-04-16 — Van Horn Aviation (2 fatalities) — 18.7 km
2016-05-18 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2012-04-03 — Nelson Rans S-12 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2020-04-24 — Southwest Rotors (1 fatalities) — 11.0 km
2025-11-17 — CAE AVIATION ACADEMY PHOENIX LLC — 1.7 km
2024-12-19 — 1.6 km
2024-11-27 — FLYING K PROPERTIES LLC — 0.4 km
2024-10-02 — CAE OXFORD AVIATION ACADEMY PHOENIX INC — 0.1 km
2023-11-06 — MD Helicopters — 0.0 km
2023-04-22 — Flight School — 0.0 km
2023-03-17 — 0.2 km

Runways

04R/22L: 5,100 ft, ASP, lighted
04L/22R: 3,799 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 2.862 days/year
Thunderstorms: 13.698 days/year
Snow: 0.102 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.146% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.005% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes79

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.