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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

▼ 75.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 57.7%

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 2 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

85°F

Wind

7 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLV 121555Z 23007KT 7SM CLR 30/24 A2991 RMK AO2A SLP127 T02950236 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

55% of ops

93 land · 75 TO

45% of ops

75 land · 54 TO

Runway 31 carries 55% of operations (93 landings, 75 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

31 93 landings

UA 13%

13 75 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 31 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 93 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

5.0

flights/day · 151 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 8pm · 1pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 5.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (8.5 vs 4.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 138 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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