James Clements Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Bay City⬆ 585 ft2 runways

K3CM ·

James Clements Municipal Airport

43.54690°N

-83.89550°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 29.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 11.8%

James Clements Municipal Airport (K3CM) is a small general aviation airport located in Bay City, MI, 65 mi north east of Lansing. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,798 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KMBS, 9 mi away (K3CM does not publish METAR)

31m ago

Temp

75°F

Wind

4 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KMBS 220053Z 21004KT 10SM BKN042 BKN050 OVC095 24/16 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP143 T02390156

Runways

2 installed

3,798 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

47% of ops

56 land · 8 TO

27% of ops

32 land · 4 TO

16% of ops

19 land · 16 TO

9% of ops

11 land · 18 TO

Runway 36 carries 47% of operations (56 landings, 8 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

36 56 landings

UA 14%

05 32 landings

UA 12%

18 19 landings

UA 0%

23 11 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 36 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 56 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

6.2

flights/day · 187 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 4pm · 6pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–6pm local, averaging 6.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.1 vs 7.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 174 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
APCH	120.950	—
APCH	235.625	—
UNICOM	122.725	—
FREELAND	127.700	—
OTHER	127.700	—
FREELAND	290.425	—
OTHER	290.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOB
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

tshiverd

11/30/2017

Watch out for the Ships!

Great airport to visit! You can watch giant lake freighters said across the grass (at least that's how it looks from the ramp). Ask for a ride into the fish place. Great food!

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