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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
15
▼ 14.6%
DEP / DAY
13
▲ 3.4%

Leicester Airport (EGBG) is a small general aviation airport located in Leicester, United Kingdom. It features 5 runways with the longest being 3,084 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 15 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From EGNX, 20 mi away (EGBG does not publish METAR)

51m ago
Temp
90°F
Wind
6 kts
190°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGNX 121550Z 19006KT 100V270 CAVOK 32/11 Q1021

Runways

5 installed

3,084 FT MAX
04/22
1,608 ft × 59
ASP○ unlit
06/24
1,099 ft × 98
GRS○ unlit
10/28
3,084 ft × 98
ASP● LIT
15/33
1,624 ft × 59
ASP○ unlit
16/34
1,371 ft × 98
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

28
30% of ops
405 land · 386 TO
10
29% of ops
383 land · 184 TO
04
9% of ops
127 land · 95 TO
06
9% of ops
116 land · 58 TO
22
6% of ops
81 land · 4 TO
24
4% of ops
60 land · 1 TO
Runway 28 carries 30% of operations (405 landings, 386 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

28 405 landings
UA 10%
10 383 landings
UA 2%
04 127 landings
UA 4%
06 116 landings
UA 16%
22 81 landings
UA 4%
24 60 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 28 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (42 UA events from 405 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
24.3
flights/day · 728 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 12pm · 2pm
Day vs night
99%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–2pm local, averaging 24.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (28.5 vs 23.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

202 · 36%
91 · 16%
71 · 13%
19 · 3%
17 · 3%
16 · 3%
Activity is led by (36% of 561 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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supercub_cliffy
12/28/2013
LAC
friendly airport in the middle of england greatly recommended
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