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KORS · ESD

Orcas Island Airport

48.70820°N

-122.91000°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 31.2%

DEP / DAY

▲ 50.4%

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 55 arrivals and 57 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 30 carriers across 30 routes. 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 327 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

4 kts

340°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KORS 112235Z AUTO 34004KT 10SM CLR 21/13 A3009 RMK AO2

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

82% of ops

2,318 land · 989 TO

18% of ops

505 land · 1,347 TO

Runway 34 carries 82% of operations (2,318 landings, 989 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

34 2,318 landings

UA 10%

16 505 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (234 UA events from 2,318 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

84.2

flights/day · 2,527 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 10pm · 11pm

Day vs night

40%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–11pm local, averaging 84.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (85.9 vs 87.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 2,058 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 327 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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