Or so says the FAA. See the memo here, and the headlines below.

Colorado CBS News: This Colorado airport has most safety incidents in the country, FAA memo states

The Daily Mail: Beautiful airport is most dangerous in America, according to terrifying FAA document

AV Web: FAA Safety Memo Flags Colorado Airport Risks: FAA safety memo ranks Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport highest in incidents nationwide.

Denver 7 News: Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport leads nation in safety incidents, pushing FAA to make changes

The Denver Gazette: Colorado airport was leading country in safety incidents – and it wasn’t DIA

Prairie Mountain Media: Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport had highest number of safety-related incidents in nation, FAA memo says

Boulder Reporting Lab: FAA memo shows Rocky Mountain Airport tops nation for safety incidents

Colorado Public Radio: The airport with the most safety incidents in the country is on the Front Range (and it’s not DIA)

Fox 31 Denver: FAA: Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport leads airspace system for safety incidents

On June 16, 2024, Superior Air Tracker noticed a significant change in the number and intensity of flight school training flights leaving RMMA. These are detailed further in their blog post, which can be found here. Importantly, they note: "Instead of aircraft turning North after taking off and flying over commercial and open space, aircraft instead head Northwest, taking them directly over North Rock Creek and Downtown Superior. On the arrivals side, aircraft now follow 287 over Lafayette. This results in more aircraft over Superior and Lafayette instead of Louisville."

A FOIA was requested following up on this change. The result of that FOIA can be found here. There are many interesting details, but the most potentially significant is the following excerpt from a memorandum:

"Anslow also wants to see the Airport’s already respectable, corporate GA numbers continue to increase. The good news is that at RMMA, the opportunity for growth is huge, with 600 acres of developable land – 200 for aviation and the rest for non-aviation activities – available to build into a world-class business and aviation park. “Our vision is that companies that build on our non-aviation parcel can then utilize our aviation parcel to build their hangars for their corporate flight department,” Anslow explains. “I’m also working to expand our flight school operations, because we want to help fill the severe shortage of pilots, while bringing in a new generation of young pilots to the aviation world. That’s going to be a crisis in the near future and we want to be ahead of that curve.”"

"Fortuitously, this past year, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport saw significant movement in its flight school expansion initiative. Most important perhaps was when the parent company of Tulsa-based Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology purchased McAir Aviation, one of the Airport’s four flight schools. “They doubled their aircraft fleet,” Anslow notes. “They’re going from about 13 to 28 aircraft, here, in the next year, and we’re very excited to be partners with them. Also, in teaming up with all four of our flight schools and our Airport engineers at Jviation, we realigned our flight school parking and acquired 28 new spaces for them to park aircraft on. That will help their growth, significantly.”"

See entire article here.