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KORS · ESD

Orcas Island Airport

48.70820°N

-122.91000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 11.0%

ON-TIME

—

schedules pending

AVG DELAY

—

7d window

Orcas Island Airport (KORS/ESD) is a small international airport located in Eastsound, WA, 24 mi north east of Saanich. It features 1 runway measuring 2,900 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 34 arrivals and 37 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 14 carriers across 22 routes. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 3% of observed flights. The most active carrier is Kenmore AIR Harbor (KEN). The busiest route is to Boeing Field King County International Airport (KBFI). At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 360 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBLI, 18 mi away (KORS does not publish METAR)

25m ago

Temp

57°F

Wind

5 kts

190°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLI 301053Z AUTO 19005KT 10SM CLR 14/11 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP171 T01390111

Runways

1 installed

2,900 FT MAX

16/34

2,900 ft × 60

ASPH-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

80% of ops

2,323 land · 870 TO

20% of ops

571 land · 1,642 TO

Runway 34 carries 80% of operations (2,323 landings, 870 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

34 2,323 landings

UA 11%

16 571 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 34 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (260 UA events from 2,323 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

79.5

flights/day · 2,386 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 5pm · 11pm

Day vs night

42%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–11pm local, averaging 79.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (84.4 vs 81.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 2,003 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	128.250	—
APCH	118.200	—
APCH	132.700	—
APCH	285.650	—
AWOS	135.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZVR
Mag var:: 17° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 2 PM · 1 movement every 360 s

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

ranna

12/7/2008

my home base

the best airport ever!

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