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Sterling Airport

42.42590°N

-71.79290°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Sterling Airport (3B3) is a small general aviation airport located in Sterling, MA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,086 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KFIT, 9 mi away (3B3 does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

72°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KFIT 312352Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC060 22/16 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP181 T02220156 10261 20222 58007

Runways

2 installed

3,086 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

100 land · 11 TO

36% of ops

56 land · 128 TO

Runway 16 carries 64% of operations (100 landings, 11 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

16 100 landings

UA 9%

34 56 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 16 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (9 UA events from 100 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

6.6

flights/day · 198 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 6pm

Day vs night

84%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–6pm local, averaging 6.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (8.5 vs 6.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 178 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

08/03/2018

Glider activity

Watch out for glider activity.

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