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89NY · AXB

Maxson Airfield

44.31200°N

-75.90034°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Maxson Airfield (89NY/AXB) is a small general aviation airport located in Alexandria Bay, NY, 29 mi east of Kingston. It features 1 runway measuring 4,280 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPTD, 53 mi away (89NY does not publish METAR)

45m ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

7 kts

280°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KPTD 281615Z AUTO 28007KT 10SM FEW026 BKN041 OVC050 18/14 A3009 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

4,280 FT MAX

06/24

4,280 ft × 60

ASPH-F● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

22 land · 0 TO

35% of ops

12 land · 1 TO

Runway 06 carries 65% of operations (22 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

06 22 landings

UA 5%

24 12 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 06 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 22 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

1.4

flights/day · 43 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 12am · 4pm

Day vs night

72%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 1.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.8 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (30% of 40 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZBW
Elevation:: 340 ft
Mag var:: 13° W

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

10/12/2015

Very Nice Airport and Owner

Visited this airport earlier this fall. Very convenient to downtown and very helpful owner

david

09/27/2007

Southwest end of runway in poor shape

The southwest 600 feet of the runway (the first 600 of rwy 06 or the last 600 of 24) is in pretty bad shape, and has now officially been NOTAM'ed closed. The rest of the runway is a bit bumpy, but generally OK. The apron is at the northeast end.

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