📍 Eastsound⬆ 31 ft1 runways

KORS · ESD

Orcas Island Airport

48.70820°N

-122.91000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 12.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 23.8%

ON-TIME

—

schedules pending

AVG DELAY

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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 35 arrivals and 33 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 15 carriers across 25 routes. The most active carrier is Rugby Aviation (SJN). 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

Latest METAR observation

4m ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KORS 050015Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 20/15 A2999 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

81% of ops

2,709 land · 1,087 TO

19% of ops

644 land · 1,804 TO

Runway 34 carries 81% of operations (2,709 landings, 1,087 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 19%.

Approach quality

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

34 2,709 landings

UA 10%

16 644 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (268 UA events from 2,709 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

78.7

flights/day · 2,361 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 5pm · 10pm

Day vs night

42%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–10pm local, averaging 78.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (75.5 vs 83.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 2,011 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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