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Banks Airport

44.16540°N

-68.42780°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Banks Airport (ME5) is a small general aviation airport located in Swans Island, ME, 172 mi north east of Manchester. It features 1 runway measuring 1,500 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KWVL, 67 mi away (ME5 does not publish METAR)

17m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

8 kts

330°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KWVL 141856Z AUTO 33008G17KT 10SM CLR 23/10 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP146 T02330100

Runways

1 installed

1,500 FT MAX

10/28

1,500 ft × 30

GRVL○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

67% of ops

16 land · 0 TO

33% of ops

8 land · 0 TO

Runway 10 carries 67% of operations (16 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

10 16 landings

UA 0%

28 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 16 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

0.9

flights/day · 28 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 7pm · 3pm

Day vs night

89%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 0.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.5 vs 1.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 27 flights). Top three types: , , .

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