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Goodspeed Airport

41.44570°N
-72.45560°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 44.1%
DEP / DAY
7
▲ 24.3%

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 7 arrivals and 7 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
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

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

48m ago
Temp
71°F
Wind
6 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KHFD 011553Z 13006KT 6SM BR OVC009 22/21 A2998 RMK AO2 CIG 006V012 SLP152 T02170206

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

14
50% of ops
97 land · 75 TO
32
50% of ops
96 land · 30 TO
Runway 14 carries 50% of operations (97 landings, 75 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 50%.

Approach quality

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

14 97 landings
UA 1%
32 96 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 14 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 97 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
11.1
flights/day · 334 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 6pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 11.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (12.2 vs 11.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

133 · 47%
53 · 19%
15 · 5%
8 · 3%
8 · 3%
7 · 2%
Activity is led by (47% of 283 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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