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KY83 ·

Sandusky City Airport

43.45420°N

-82.84940°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Sandusky City Airport (KY83) is a small general aviation airport located in Sandusky, MI, 61 mi north of Sterling Heights. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,105 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KFNT, 56 mi away (KY83 does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

85°F

Wind

11 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KFNT 262253Z 30011KT 10SM SCT055 29/17 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP106 T02940172

Runways

2 installed

3,105 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

43 land · 16 TO

36% of ops

24 land · 27 TO

Runway 09 carries 64% of operations (43 landings, 16 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

09 43 landings

UA 7%

27 24 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 09 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 43 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

2.0

flights/day · 60 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–9pm local, averaging 2.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (2.8 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (12% of 40 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
FREELAND	127.700	—
OTHER	127.700	—
FREELAND	290.425	—
OTHER	290.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOB
Mag var:: 8° W
Fuel:: 100LL

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