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James Clements Municipal Airport

43.54690°N
-83.89550°W
ARR / DAY
3
▼ 25.8%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 0.0%

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 3,800 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 2 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 KMBS, 9 mi away (K3CM does not publish METAR)

27m ago
Temp
77°F
Wind
12 kts
220°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KMBS 121653Z 22012KT 10SM CLR 25/15 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP102 T02500150

Runways

2 installed

3,800 FT MAX
05/23
2,619 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED
18/36
3,800 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

36
36% of ops
39 land · 16 TO
05
31% of ops
34 land · 3 TO
18
24% of ops
26 land · 17 TO
23
9% of ops
10 land · 9 TO
Runway 36 carries 36% of operations (39 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

36 39 landings
UA 13%
05 34 landings
UA 6%
18 26 landings
UA 0%
23 10 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 36 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 39 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
5.1
flights/day · 154 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 2pm · 3pm
Day vs night
55%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–9pm local, averaging 5.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (5.9 vs 5.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

33 · 23%
16 · 11%
13 · 9%
13 · 9%
12 · 8%
12 · 8%
Activity is led by (23% of 146 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

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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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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