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St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field

38.73290°N
-89.80660°W
ARR / DAY
1
50.0%
DEP / DAY
1
80.0%

St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field (K3K6) is a small general aviation airport located in St Jacob, IL, 22 mi east of St. Louis. It features 1 runway measuring 2,662 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KBLV, 13 mi away (K3K6 does not publish METAR)

41m ago
Temp
89°F
Wind
4 kts
20°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KBLV 282155Z AUTO 02004KT 10SM SCT180 32/27 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP085 T03170269 $

Runways

1 installed

2,662 FT MAX
13/31
2,662 ft × 50
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

31
59% of ops
63 land · 46 TO
13
41% of ops
44 land · 23 TO
Runway 31 carries 59% of operations (63 landings, 46 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

31 63 landings
UA 8%
13 44 landings
UA 16%
Approaches to 31 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 63 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
4.2
flights/day · 125 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 12pm · 3pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 4.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (5.2 vs 4.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 117 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 22:36 UTC