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Lake Preston Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Lake Preston⬆ 1,725 ft1 runways

Y34 ·

Lake Preston Municipal Airport

44.35730°N

-97.38480°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Lake Preston Municipal Airport (Y34) is a small general aviation airport located in Lake Preston, SD, 65 mi north west of Sioux Falls. It features 1 runway measuring 2,220 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KATY, 40 mi away (Y34 does not publish METAR)

21m ago

Temp

95°F

Wind

5 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KATY 262253Z AUTO 16005KT 10SM CLR 35/21 A2978 RMK AO2 SLP069 T03500206

Runways

1 installed

2,220 FT MAX

12/30

2,220 ft × 250

TURF-F● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

83% of ops

20 land · 3 TO

17% of ops

4 land · 0 TO

Runway 12 carries 83% of operations (20 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

12 20 landings

UA 0%

30 4 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 12 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 20 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

0.4

flights/day · 12 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 7pm · 1am

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1am–5pm local, averaging 0.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (0.2 vs 0.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

7 · 70%

2 · 20%

1 · 10%

Activity is led by (70% of 10 flights). Top three types: , , .

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