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18TE ·

Alert Field

32.58520°N

-95.06390°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 11.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 20.0%

Alert Field (18TE) is a small general aviation airport located in Big Sandy, TX, 21 mi north east of Tyler. It features 1 runway measuring 5,093 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KSHV, 73 mi away (18TE does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

5 kts

100°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSHV 290656Z 10005KT 10SM CLR 25/22 A3003 RMK SLPNO

Runways

1 installed

5,093 FT MAX

08/26

5,093 ft × 45

ASPH-G● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

74% of ops

63 land · 0 TO

26% of ops

22 land · 9 TO

Runway 08 carries 74% of operations (63 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

08 63 landings

UA 0%

26 22 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 08 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 63 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

3.3

flights/day · 100 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

74%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 3.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (2.4 vs 3.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 79 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZFW
Elevation:: 390 ft
Mag var:: 4° E

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