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📍 Belle Chasse2 runways

65LA · BCS

Southern Seaplane Airport

29.86610°N

-90.02220°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Southern Seaplane Airport (65LA/BCS) is a small general aviation airport located in Belle Chasse, LA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KNBG, 3 mi away (65LA does not publish METAR)

35m ago

Temp

91°F

Wind

6 kts

290°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KNBG 271855Z 29006KT 10SM FEW030TCU BKN040 BKN250 33/24 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP141 TCU S T03280239 $

Runways

2 installed

5,000 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

86% of ops

56 land · 7 TO

14% of ops

9 land · 0 TO

Runway 02 carries 86% of operations (56 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 14%.

Approach quality

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

02 56 landings

UA 0%

20 9 landings

UA 44%

Approaches to 02 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 56 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)

3pm

also 4pm · 12pm

Day vs night

87%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12pm–3pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.6 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (36% of 39 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Mag var:: 3° E
Fuel:: 100LL

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