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KY89 ·

Kalkaska City Airport

44.72520°N

-85.20310°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 71.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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 2 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)

20m ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

7 kts

360°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTVC 162053Z 36007KT 10SM FEW100 BKN250 20/12 A3034 RMK AO2 SLP274 T02000122 56010

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

56% of ops

37 land · 1 TO

44% of ops

29 land · 0 TO

Runway 10 carries 56% of operations (37 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

10 37 landings

UA 3%

28 29 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 37 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)

3pm

also 4pm · 8pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 2.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (2.1 vs 2.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 57 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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