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📍 Townsend⬆ 3,893 ft1 runways

K8U8 ·

Townsend Airport

46.33120°N

-111.48300°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

33m ago

Temp

60°F

Wind

6 kts

320°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KHLN 170153Z 32006KT 10SM CLR 16/07 A3019 RMK AO2 SLP228 T01560072

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

94% of ops

48 land · 0 TO

6% of ops

3 land · 13 TO

Runway 34 carries 94% of operations (48 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 6%.

Approach quality

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

34 48 landings

UA 0%

16 3 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 48 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

3.1

flights/day · 93 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 3pm

Day vs night

81%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 3.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.9 vs 3.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 89 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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