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Sterling Airport

42.42590°N

-71.79290°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 95.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Sterling Airport (3B3) is a small general aviation airport located in Sterling, MA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,086 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

35m ago

Temp

76°F

Wind

6 kts

100°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KORH 251854Z 10006KT 10SM FEW055 24/11 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP190 T02440111 $

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

67% of ops

159 land · 30 TO

33% of ops

78 land · 139 TO

Runway 16 carries 67% of operations (159 landings, 30 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

16 159 landings

UA 6%

34 78 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 16 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 159 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

5.3

flights/day · 160 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

82%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 5.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (7.2 vs 4.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (14% of 127 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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