Airports / KY89 / Kalkaska City AirportModerate ground coverage

📍 Kalkaska⬆ 1,030 ft1 runways

KY89 ·

Kalkaska City Airport

44.72520°N

-85.20310°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

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)

36m ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTVC 130153Z 00000KT 10SM TS SCT080CB OVC100 18/15 A2970 RMK AO2 TSB44 SLP056 CONS LTGICCG SE-NW TS SE-NW MOV E T01780150

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

94% of ops

32 land · 0 TO

6% of ops

2 land · 0 TO

Runway 10 carries 94% of operations (32 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 6%.

Approach quality

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

10 32 landings

UA 3%

28 2 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 32 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

1.4

flights/day · 41 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 7pm · 9pm

Day vs night

66%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–9pm local, averaging 1.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.3× weekday (0.5 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

27 · 66%

2 · 5%

1 · 2%

Activity is led by (66% of 41 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Elevation:: 1,029 ft

Custom date range