St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field (K3K6) is a small general aviation airport located in St Jacob, IL, 22 mi east of St. Louis. It features 1 runway measuring 2,662 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

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Current weather

From KBLV, 13 mi away (K3K6 does not publish METAR)

47m ago

Temp

85°F

Wind

5 kts

180°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

2,662 FT MAX

13/31

2,662 ft × 50

ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

54% of ops

65 land · 43 TO

46% of ops

55 land · 43 TO

Runway 31 carries 54% of operations (65 landings, 43 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

31 65 landings

UA 11%

13 55 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 31 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 65 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

5.2

flights/day · 157 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 3pm · 7pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 5.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (9.0 vs 4.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 143 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field