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Sterling Airport

42.42590°N

-71.79290°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 25.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 55.6%

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 3 arrivals and 4 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)

55m ago

Temp

67°F

Wind

8 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KORH 140354Z AUTO 27008KT 10SM CLR 19/16 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP142 T01940161

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

66% of ops

126 land · 50 TO

34% of ops

64 land · 102 TO

Runway 16 carries 66% of operations (126 landings, 50 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

16 126 landings

UA 9%

34 64 landings

UA 9%

Approaches to 16 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 126 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

7.0

flights/day · 209 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 7pm · 1pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 7.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.8 vs 7.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 190 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

8/3/2018

Glider activity

Watch out for glider activity.

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