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89NY · AXB

Maxson Airfield

44.31200°N

-75.90034°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Maxson Airfield (89NY/AXB) is a small general aviation airport located in Alexandria Bay, NY, 29 mi east of Kingston. It features 1 runway measuring 4,280 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KART, 23 mi away (89NY does not publish METAR)

41m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

11 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KART 031730Z AUTO 23011KT 10SM CLR 25/18 A2991 RMK T02500180 MADISHF

Runways

1 installed

4,280 FT MAX

06/24

4,280 ft × 60

ASPH-F● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

61% of ops

27 land · 0 TO

39% of ops

17 land · 1 TO

Runway 06 carries 61% of operations (27 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

06 27 landings

UA 11%

24 17 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 06 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 27 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

1.4

flights/day · 41 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 5pm · 3pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–3pm local, averaging 1.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.1 vs 1.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 37 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZBW
Elevation:: 340 ft
Mag var:: 13° W

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

10/12/2015

Very Nice Airport and Owner

Visited this airport earlier this fall. Very convenient to downtown and very helpful owner

david

09/27/2007

Southwest end of runway in poor shape

The southwest 600 feet of the runway (the first 600 of rwy 06 or the last 600 of 24) is in pretty bad shape, and has now officially been NOTAM'ed closed. The rest of the runway is a bit bumpy, but generally OK. The apron is at the northeast end.

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