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18TE ·

Alert Field

32.58520°N

-95.06390°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 11.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 16.7%

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)

59m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSHV 031156Z 00000KT 10SM FEW012 FEW100 23/23 A2999 RMK MIFG SE CB DSNT SW 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

77% of ops

119 land · 0 TO

23% of ops

35 land · 11 TO

Runway 08 carries 77% of operations (119 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

08 119 landings

UA 0%

26 35 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 08 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 119 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

3.9

flights/day · 117 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

72%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 3.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (2.9 vs 4.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 89 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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