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Clare Municipal Airport

43.83450°N
-84.74020°W
ARR / DAY
4
▲ 33.3%
DEP / DAY
4
▼ 50.0%

Clare Municipal Airport (K48D) is a small general aviation airport located in Clare, MI, 76 mi north east of Grand Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KMBS, 39 mi away (K48D does not publish METAR)

31m ago
Temp
58°F
Wind
4 kts
70°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KMBS 242253Z 07004KT 10SM CLR 14/06 A3043 RMK AO2 SLP308 T01440061

Runway intelligence

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

04
62% of ops
42 land · 9 TO
22
16% of ops
11 land · 3 TO
27
15% of ops
10 land · 2 TO
09
7% of ops
5 land · 6 TO
Runway 04 carries 62% of operations (42 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

04 42 landings
UA 2%
22 11 landings
UA 0%
27 10 landings
UA 0%
09 5 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 04 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 42 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
6.8
flights/day · 205 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 4pm · 2pm
Day vs night
68%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–6pm local, averaging 6.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (9.0 vs 6.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 173 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 126.450 —
APCH 235.625 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
FREELAND 127.700 —
OTHER 127.700 —
FREELAND 290.425 —
OTHER 290.425 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOB
Elevation:
856 ft
Mag var:
5° 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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 23:24 UTC