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St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field satellite view

📍 St Jacob⬆ 477 ft1 runways

K3K6 ·

St Louis Metro-East Airport/Shafer Field

38.73290°N

-89.80660°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

43m ago

Temp

83°F

Wind

3 kts

90°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLV 072355Z 09003KT 10SM CLR 28/14 A3002 RMK AO2A SLP166 T02830138 10314 20283 55002 RVRNO VISNO RWY32L $

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

55% of ops

101 land · 76 TO

45% of ops

81 land · 60 TO

Runway 31 carries 55% of operations (101 landings, 76 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

31 101 landings

UA 12%

13 81 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 31 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 101 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)

8pm

also 3pm · 9pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 5.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (8.9 vs 4.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 144 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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