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K4R5 ·

Madeline Island Airport

46.78870°N

-90.75870°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 40.0%

Madeline Island Airport (K4R5) is a small general aviation airport located in La Pointe, WI, 131 mi south west of Thunder Bay. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

4 kts

130°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K4R5 151615Z AUTO 13004KT 10SM OVC060 21/14 A3010 RMK AO2 T02100144

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

04/22

3,000 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

85% of ops

81 land · 16 TO

15% of ops

14 land · 52 TO

Runway 04 carries 85% of operations (81 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 15%.

Approach quality

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

04 81 landings

UA 4%

22 14 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 04 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 81 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

5.1

flights/day · 153 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 6pm · 8pm

Day vs night

51%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 5.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (5.8 vs 5.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 118 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—
AWOS	119.375	—
IRONWOOD	133.550	—
OTHER	133.550	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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