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KY89 ·

Kalkaska City Airport

44.72520°N

-85.20310°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Kalkaska City Airport (KY89) is a small general aviation airport located in Kalkaska, MI, 124 mi north of Grand Rapids. It features 1 runway measuring 3,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KTVC, 19 mi away (KY89 does not publish METAR)

29m ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

4 kts

360°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTVC 122353Z 36004KT 10SM FEW090 SCT170 OVC250 18/16 A2972 RMK AO2 SLP063 T01780156 10278 20178 51006

Runways

1 installed

3,500 FT MAX

10/28

3,500 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

97% of ops

31 land · 0 TO

3% of ops

1 land · 0 TO

Runway 10 carries 97% of operations (31 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 3%.

Approach quality

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

10 31 landings

UA 3%

28 1 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 31 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

1.3

flights/day · 39 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 7pm · 9pm

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–9pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.3× weekday (0.5 vs 1.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

25 · 64%

2 · 5%

1 · 3%

Activity is led by (64% of 39 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Elevation:: 1,029 ft

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