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Ken Jernstedt Airfield

45.67260°N

-121.53600°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 161.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 55.0%

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 12 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

7h ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

5 kts

310°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K4S2 140235Z AUTO 31005KT 10SM CLR 25/14 A2979 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

62% of ops

262 land · 60 TO

38% of ops

161 land · 287 TO

Runway 07 carries 62% of operations (262 landings, 60 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

07 262 landings

UA 3%

25 161 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 07 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 262 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

13.6

flights/day · 409 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 9pm · 4pm

Day vs night

48%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 13.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (14.1 vs 14.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (13% of 293 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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