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📍 Houghton Lake Heights⬆ 1,165 ft1 runways
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Houghton Lake State Airport

44.32920°N
-84.79170°W
ARR / DAY
1
20.0%
DEP / DAY
1
0.0%

Houghton Lake State Airport (5Y2) is a small general aviation airport located in Houghton Lake Heights, MI, 104 mi north east of Grand Rapids. It features 1 runway measuring 2,750 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KTVC, 48 mi away (5Y2 does not publish METAR)

42m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
6 kts
330°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KTVC 282153Z 33006KT 10SM FEW050 FEW065 SCT090 24/11 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP190 T02390106

Runways

1 installed

2,750 FT MAX
16/34
2,750 ft × 104
TURF-F○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

34
100% of ops
23 land · 1 TO
16
0% of ops
0 land · 2 TO
Runway 34 carries 100% of operations (23 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 0%.

Approach quality

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

34 23 landings
UA 0%
16 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 23 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
1.7
flights/day · 50 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 3pm · 5pm
Day vs night
52%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (1.6 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 40 flights). Top three types: , , .
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