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KY47 ·

Oakland Southwest Airport

42.50310°N

-83.62370°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 44.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 58.3%

Oakland Southwest Airport (KY47) is a small general aviation airport located in New Hudson, MI, 17 mi north of Ann Arbor. It features 1 runway measuring 3,128 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

From KPTK, 15 mi away (KY47 does not publish METAR)

57m ago

Temp

78°F

Wind

7 kts

250°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPTK 122253Z COR 25007KT 10SM FEW023 SCT130 26/19 A2981 RMK SLP087 T02560194

Runways

1 installed

3,128 FT MAX

08/26

3,128 ft × 40

ASPH-F● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

165 land · 146 TO

48% of ops

152 land · 44 TO

Runway 26 carries 52% of operations (165 landings, 146 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

26 165 landings

UA 27%

08 152 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 26 show a 27% unstable-approach rate (45 UA events from 165 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

6.9

flights/day · 207 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 10pm · 1pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 6.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (6.8 vs 7.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (18% of 192 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	132.350	—
APCH	284.000	—
UNICOM	122.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOB
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

wolfgangx

9/18/2018

(no subject)

The trees are taller than they appear. Know your short field performance and maybe don't take off at gross weight if its close. Bonanza V35 at gross was too close for comfort on takeoff.

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