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KSHN · SHN

Sanderson Field

47.23360°N

-123.14800°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 34.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 27.7%

Sanderson Field (KSHN/SHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Shelton, WA, 33 mi west of Tacoma. It features 1 runway measuring 5,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 arrivals and 20 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 7 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

15h ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

7 kts

350°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSHN 122353Z AUTO 35007KT 10SM FEW055 22/08 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP181 T02220083 10233 20150 57015

Runways

1 installed

5,005 FT MAX

05/23

5,005 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

75% of ops

1,129 land · 1,180 TO

25% of ops

381 land · 341 TO

Runway 23 carries 75% of operations (1,129 landings, 1,180 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

23 1,129 landings

UA 17%

05 381 landings

UA 15%

Approaches to 23 show a 17% unstable-approach rate (188 UA events from 1,129 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

27.3

flights/day · 819 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 6pm · 10pm

Day vs night

41%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 27.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.1× weekday (45.1 vs 21.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 594 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	121.100	—
APCH	290.900	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	119.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Pilot_1975

01/28/2012

Sanderson

Landed here to look at a Cessna 150. Nice clean airport. No courtesy car, not much for dining. Frequent skydiving. Great pilot lounge.

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