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KSHN · SHN

Sanderson Field

47.23360°N

-123.14800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 42.6%

Sanderson Field (KSHN/SHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Shelton, WA, 33 mi west of Tacoma. It features 1 runway measuring 5,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 12 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

5,005 FT MAX

05/23

5,005 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

76% of ops

483 land · 501 TO

24% of ops

156 land · 88 TO

Runway 23 carries 76% of operations (483 landings, 501 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

23 483 landings

UA 8%

05 156 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 23 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (39 UA events from 483 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

27.8

flights/day · 835 total

Busy hour (local)

10pm

also 8pm · 9pm

Day vs night

35%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–10pm local, averaging 27.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (34.2 vs 26.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 612 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	121.100	—
APCH	290.900	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	119.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Pilot_1975

01/28/2012

Sanderson

Landed here to look at a Cessna 150. Nice clean airport. No courtesy car, not much for dining. Frequent skydiving. Great pilot lounge.

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