Airports / 89NY / Maxson AirfieldIATA AXBModerate ground coverage

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89NY · AXB

Maxson Airfield

44.31200°N

-75.90034°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 60.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 100.0%

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 KGTB, 20 mi away (89NY does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

74°F

Wind

6 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGTB 282055Z AUTO 21006KT 10SM BKN024 23/20 A2958 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT NW SLP013 60020 T02330200 55002 $

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

55% of ops

16 land · 0 TO

45% of ops

13 land · 1 TO

Runway 24 carries 55% of operations (16 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 06 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

24 16 landings

UA 0%

06 13 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 24 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 16 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

1.2

flights/day · 35 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 1.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (1.4 vs 1.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 28%

4 · 16%

2 · 8%

Activity is led by (28% of 25 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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