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📍 Batesville⬆ 973 ft1 runways

KHLB · HLB

Hillenbrand Industries Airport

39.34450°N

-85.25830°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 71.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 57.1%

Hillenbrand Industries Airport (KHLB/HLB) is a small general aviation airport located in Batesville, IN, 43 mi west of Cincinnati. It features 1 runway measuring 5,933 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

26m ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KHLB 070855Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 16/16 A3010 RMK A01

Runways

1 installed

5,933 FT MAX

18/36

5,933 ft × 100

ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

77% of ops

27 land · 10 TO

23% of ops

8 land · 7 TO

Runway 18 carries 77% of operations (27 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

18 27 landings

UA 4%

36 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 27 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

1.6

flights/day · 49 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 1pm · 2pm

Day vs night

84%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (1.9 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 14%

3 · 7%

2 · 5%

Activity is led by (14% of 44 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
APCH	128.700	—
APCH	254.250	—
UNICOM	122.725	—
AWOS	124.075	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZID
Elevation:: 975 ft
Mag var:: 5° W

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