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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)

53m ago

Temp

60°F

Wind

7 kts

250°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KORH 250554Z AUTO 25007KT 10SM CLR 16/09 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP228 T01560094 10217 20156 58005 $

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

69% of ops

181 land · 33 TO

31% of ops

82 land · 149 TO

Runway 16 carries 69% of operations (181 landings, 33 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

16 181 landings

UA 6%

34 82 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 16 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 181 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

5.9

flights/day · 176 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

84%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 5.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (7.2 vs 5.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (14% of 142 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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