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Leicester Airport

52.60780°N
-1.03194°W
ARR / DAY
13
▼ 63.3%
DEP / DAY
11
▼ 66.5%

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 13 arrivals and 11 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)

59m ago
Temp
57°F
Wind
14 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
EGNX 170450Z 21014KT 9999 FEW023 SCT044 14/11 Q1007

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
45% of ops
303 land · 305 TO
10
18% of ops
124 land · 42 TO
22
11% of ops
73 land · 78 TO
06
7% of ops
45 land · 12 TO
04
5% of ops
36 land · 19 TO
16
4% of ops
26 land · 1 TO
Runway 28 carries 45% of operations (303 landings, 305 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

28 303 landings
UA 2%
10 124 landings
UA 5%
22 73 landings
UA 3%
06 45 landings
UA 2%
04 36 landings
UA 14%
16 26 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 303 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
26.5
flights/day · 796 total
Busy hour (local)
10am
also 9am · 2pm
Day vs night
100%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10am–2pm local, averaging 26.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.5× weekday (48.9 vs 19.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

128 · 26%
63 · 13%
35 · 7%
31 · 6%
30 · 6%
26 · 5%
Activity is led by (26% of 491 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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