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St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field satellite view

📍 St Jacob⬆ 477 ft1 runways

K3K6 ·

St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field

38.73290°N

-89.80660°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 30.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 34.5%

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 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

1h ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

7 kts

90°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLV 071355Z 09007KT 10SM CLR 22/18 A3008 RMK AO2A SLP186 T02220177 RVRNO $

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

54% of ops

105 land · 84 TO

46% of ops

89 land · 64 TO

Runway 31 carries 54% of operations (105 landings, 84 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

31 105 landings

UA 11%

13 89 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 31 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 105 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

5.6

flights/day · 168 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 3pm · 9pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 5.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.5× weekday (10.2 vs 4.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 155 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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