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Sterling Airport

42.42590°N

-71.79290°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 76.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 84.6%

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 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

49m ago

Temp

75°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KORH 241654Z VRB04KT 10SM CLR 24/09 A3025 RMK AO2 SLP240 T02390089 $

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

68% of ops

184 land · 33 TO

32% of ops

85 land · 149 TO

Runway 16 carries 68% of operations (184 landings, 33 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

16 184 landings

UA 5%

34 85 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 16 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 184 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

6.1

flights/day · 182 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 1pm

Day vs night

84%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 6.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (7.2 vs 5.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (14% of 145 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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