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Clare Municipal Airport

43.83450°N
-84.74020°W
ARR / DAY
5
16.7%
DEP / DAY
9
80.0%

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 5 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

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

28m ago
Temp
80°F
Wind
5 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KMBS 151653Z VRB05KT 10SM FEW049 FEW060 SCT110 27/14 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP219 T02670144

Runway intelligence

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

04
54% of ops
96 land · 22 TO
22
21% of ops
37 land · 29 TO
27
16% of ops
29 land · 15 TO
09
8% of ops
15 land · 8 TO
Runway 04 carries 54% of operations (96 landings, 22 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 21%.

Approach quality

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

04 96 landings
UA 7%
22 37 landings
UA 3%
27 29 landings
UA 7%
09 15 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 04 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 96 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
8.0
flights/day · 241 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 2pm · 5pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 8.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (7.4 vs 8.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 205 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 17:21 UTC