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📍 Friday Harbor⬆ 113 ft1 runways
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Friday Harbor Airport

48.52200°N
-123.02400°W
ARR / DAY
27
▼ 0.5%
DEP / DAY
28
▲ 1.0%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Friday Harbor Airport (KFHR/FRD) is a small international airport located in Friday Harbor, WA, 16 mi east of Saanich. It features 1 runway measuring 3,402 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 27 arrivals and 28 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 13 carriers across 21 routes. The most active carrier is Kenmore AIR Harbor (KEN). The busiest route is to Boeing Field King County International Airport (KBFI).

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

45m ago
Temp
50°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KFHR 161553Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 10/09 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP223 T01000094 $

Runways

1 installed

3,402 FT MAX
16/34
3,402 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

16
52% of ops
526 land · 650 TO
34
48% of ops
480 land · 387 TO
Runway 16 carries 52% of operations (526 landings, 650 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

16 526 landings
UA 8%
34 480 landings
UA 11%
Approaches to 16 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (43 UA events from 526 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
61.7
flights/day · 1,850 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 11pm · 7pm
Day vs night
36%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 61.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (64.1 vs 63.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 1,533 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 128.250 —
APCH 118.200 —
APCH 285.650 —
ASOS 135.675 —
OTHER 284.000 —
FHR NDB 284.000 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZSE
Mag var:
16° E
Fuel:
100LL

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)

1
PilotBobSenior
9/25/2011
Great Yuppy type town
Very nice small airport. Close easy walk to town. Nice shops and restaurants. Try the restaurant down by the ferry dock, my daughter says its great.
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