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📍 Houghton Lake Heights⬆ 1,165 ft1 runways

5Y2 ·

Houghton Lake State Airport

44.32920°N

-84.79170°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

58m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

3 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTVC 261253Z 23003KT 10SM FEW038 SCT050 SCT080 23/19 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP119 T02280194

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

86% of ops

43 land · 0 TO

14% of ops

7 land · 12 TO

Runway 34 carries 86% of operations (43 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 14%.

Approach quality

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

34 43 landings

UA 0%

16 7 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 43 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

1.3

flights/day · 39 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 2pm

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.0× weekday (2.1 vs 1.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

8 · 21%

4 · 11%

2 · 5%

Activity is led by (21% of 38 flights). Top three types: , , .

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