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Banks Airport

44.16540°N

-68.42780°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBHB, 20 mi away (ME5 does not publish METAR)

49m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBHB 240625Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/12 A3019 RMK T01200120 MADISHF

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

92% of ops

45 land · 3 TO

8% of ops

4 land · 3 TO

Runway 10 carries 92% of operations (45 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 8%.

Approach quality

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

10 45 landings

UA 0%

28 4 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 45 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

1.1

flights/day · 34 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 6pm

Day vs night

74%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–6pm local, averaging 1.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (1.4 vs 1.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

11 · 33%

5 · 15%

2 · 6%

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

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