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K4S2 ·

Ken Jernstedt Airfield

45.67260°N

-121.53600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 36.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 26.7%

Ken Jernstedt Airfield (K4S2) is a small general aviation airport located in Hood River, OR, 45 mi east of Gresham. It features 1 runway measuring 3,040 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

10h ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

3 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K4S2 150255Z AUTO 30003G16KT 10SM CLR 25/15 A2991 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

3,040 FT MAX

07/25

3,040 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

60% of ops

247 land · 61 TO

40% of ops

165 land · 290 TO

Runway 07 carries 60% of operations (247 landings, 61 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

07 247 landings

UA 3%

25 165 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 07 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 247 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

13.8

flights/day · 413 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 9pm · 3pm

Day vs night

48%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 13.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (14.1 vs 14.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (12% of 296 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	134.375	—
HOOD RIV	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Elevation:: 638 ft
Mag var:: 19° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Todtc

9/8/2008

Museum

Want to talk about an awesome museum?! This place has the WAAAM that houses a huge collection of early model FLYING aircraft and running automobiles. Everything is in perfect condition, even a Curtiss-Jenny with serial #1! As a bonus, you get to fly the Columbia Gorge to get there.

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