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Sterling Airport

42.42590°N

-71.79290°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 333.3%

Sterling Airport (3B3) is a small general aviation airport located in Sterling, MA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,086 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KORH, 12 mi away (3B3 does not publish METAR)

48m ago

Temp

74°F

Wind

9 kts

170°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KORH 281954Z 17009G18KT 10SM SCT035 23/21 A2973 RMK AO2 RAB1858E10 SLP061 P0000 T02330206 $

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

70 land · 25 TO

36% of ops

40 land · 51 TO

Runway 16 carries 64% of operations (70 landings, 25 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

16 70 landings

UA 9%

34 40 landings

UA 8%

Approaches to 16 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 70 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

5.6

flights/day · 167 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 12pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12pm–3pm local, averaging 5.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (6.6 vs 5.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (16% of 132 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

08/03/2018

Glider activity

Watch out for glider activity.

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