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18TE ·

Alert Field

32.58520°N

-95.06390°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 26.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 133.3%

Alert Field (18TE) is a small general aviation airport located in Big Sandy, TX, 21 mi north east of Tyler. It features 1 runway measuring 5,093 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KGGG, 25 mi away (18TE does not publish METAR)

24m ago

Temp

78°F

Wind

8 kts

130°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGGG 192053Z 13008G16KT 10SM CLR 26/07 A3020 RMK AO2 SLP223 T02560072 56027

Runways

1 installed

5,093 FT MAX

08/26

5,093 ft × 40

ASPH-G● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

78% of ops

50 land · 1 TO

22% of ops

14 land · 6 TO

Runway 08 carries 78% of operations (50 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 22%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

08 50 landings

UA 0%

26 14 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 08 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 50 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

3.1

flights/day · 93 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 3.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (2.6 vs 3.4 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (28% of 80 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZFW
Elevation:: 390 ft
Mag var:: 4° E

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