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📍 Belle Chasse2 runways

65LA · BCS

Southern Seaplane Airport

29.86610°N

-90.02220°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 83.3%

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)

47m ago

Temp

93°F

Wind

5 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KNBG 262055Z 24005KT 10SM SCT035 SCT250 34/24 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP158 T03390239 56019

Runways

2 installed

5,000 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

87% of ops

59 land · 7 TO

13% of ops

9 land · 0 TO

Runway 02 carries 87% of operations (59 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 13%.

Approach quality

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

02 59 landings

UA 0%

20 9 landings

UA 44%

Approaches to 02 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 59 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 · 40 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 12pm

Day vs night

88%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12pm–3pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (0.8 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

14 · 35%

6 · 15%

1 · 2%

Activity is led by (35% of 40 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

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

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