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K8U8 ·

Townsend Airport

46.33120°N

-111.48300°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 9.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 5.9%

Townsend Airport (K8U8) is a small general aviation airport located in Townsend, MT, 148 mi west of Billings. It features 1 runway measuring 3,999 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KHLN, 30 mi away (K8U8 does not publish METAR)

48m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

37 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KHLN 022053Z 27037G62KT 10SM VCTS FEW090 BKN110 17/04 A2979 RMK AO2 PK WND 27062/2044 LTG DSNT SW AND W PRESRR SLP082 T01720044 53005

Runways

1 installed

3,999 FT MAX

16/34

3,999 ft × 60

ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

95% of ops

59 land · 0 TO

5% of ops

3 land · 15 TO

Runway 34 carries 95% of operations (59 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 5%.

Approach quality

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

34 59 landings

UA 0%

16 3 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 59 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

3.2

flights/day · 97 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 3pm · 6pm

Day vs night

81%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 3.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.3× weekday (1.2 vs 4.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 96 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLC
Mag var:: 16° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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