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AK1 ·

Butte Municipal Airport

61.53030°N

-149.01801°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 333.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 80.0%

Butte Municipal Airport (AK1) is a small general aviation airport located in Palmer, AK, 36 mi north east of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 1,806 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 13 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From PAAQ, 5 mi away (AK1 does not publish METAR)

46m ago

Temp

59°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAAQ 150753Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT038 15/11 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP173 T01500106 TSNO $

Runways

1 installed

1,806 FT MAX

07/25

1,806 ft × 50

GRAVEL-P○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

91% of ops

309 land · 6 TO

9% of ops

32 land · 24 TO

Runway 07 carries 91% of operations (309 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 9%.

Approach quality

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

07 309 landings

UA 7%

25 32 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 07 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (22 UA events from 309 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

14.4

flights/day · 432 total

Busy hour (local)

11pm

also 7pm · 9pm

Day vs night

25%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–11pm local, averaging 14.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (13.9 vs 15.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 365 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.600	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Elevation:: 64 ft
Mag var:: 25° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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