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Plum Island Airport

42.79590°N
-70.84120°W
ARR / DAY
4
42.9%
DEP / DAY
1
0.0%

Plum Island Airport (2B2) is a small general aviation airport located in Newburyport, MA, 27 mi north east of Lowell. It features 2 runways with the longest being 2,300 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KBVY, 15 mi away (2B2 does not publish METAR)

41m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
6 kts
270°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KBVY 070450Z AUTO 27006KT 10SM CLR 13/08 A3001 RMK T01300080 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

10
55% of ops
130 land · 36 TO
28
45% of ops
107 land · 18 TO
Runway 10 carries 55% of operations (130 landings, 36 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

10 130 landings
UA 17%
28 107 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 10 show a 17% unstable-approach rate (22 UA events from 130 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
5.7
flights/day · 170 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 5pm · 1pm
Day vs night
87%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 5.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (9.8 vs 4.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 164 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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