James Clements Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Bay City⬆ 585 ft2 runways

K3CM ·

James Clements Municipal Airport

43.54690°N

-83.89550°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 31.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 152.9%

James Clements Municipal Airport (K3CM) is a small general aviation airport located in Bay City, MI, 65 mi north east of Lansing. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,798 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

2 installed

3,798 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

32% of ops

174 land · 116 TO

31% of ops

167 land · 47 TO

23% of ops

122 land · 48 TO

14% of ops

78 land · 56 TO

Runway 36 carries 32% of operations (174 landings, 116 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

36 174 landings

UA 16%

18 167 landings

UA 2%

05 122 landings

UA 31%

23 78 landings

UA 28%

Approaches to 36 show a 16% unstable-approach rate (28 UA events from 174 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

8.0

flights/day · 241 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 3pm · 2pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 8.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 3.7× weekday (17.6 vs 4.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 199 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
APCH	120.950	—
APCH	235.625	—
UNICOM	122.725	—
FREELAND	127.700	—
OTHER	127.700	—
FREELAND	290.425	—
OTHER	290.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOB
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

tshiverd

11/30/2017

Watch out for the Ships!

Great airport to visit! You can watch giant lake freighters said across the grass (at least that's how it looks from the ramp). Ask for a ride into the fish place. Great food!

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