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Goodspeed Airport

41.44570°N
-72.45560°W
ARR / DAY
8
▲ 23.3%
DEP / DAY
8
▲ 26.7%

Goodspeed Airport (42B) is a small general aviation airport located in East Haddam, CT, 25 mi south east of Hartford. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KHFD, 22 mi away (42B does not publish METAR)

58m ago
Temp
71°F
Wind
5 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KHFD 022153Z 17005KT 10SM OVC055 22/14 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP202 T02170144

Runways

2 installed

4,500 FT MAX
14/32
2,120 ft × 50
ASPH-G● LIT
16W/34W
4,500 ft × 1,000
WATER○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

32
51% of ops
144 land · 41 TO
14
49% of ops
138 land · 122 TO
Runway 32 carries 51% of operations (144 landings, 41 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 14 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

32 144 landings
UA 2%
14 138 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 32 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 144 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
12.4
flights/day · 373 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 9pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–9pm local, averaging 12.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (13.2 vs 12.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

156 · 49%
58 · 18%
15 · 5%
8 · 3%
8 · 3%
7 · 2%
Activity is led by (49% of 319 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Aristotle
08/20/2009
Great place for lunch
It's a very nice airport that you can approach a lower than usual altitude on final and get a good short-field landing. Park and walk up the road to a couple of places for lunch. The place across the street is excellent. This place is my favorite destination.
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