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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

▲ 29.2%

DEP / DAY

▲ 8.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KALN, 17 mi away (K3K6 does not publish METAR)

42m ago

Temp

97°F

Wind

5 kts

130°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KALN 032245Z 13005KT 10SM SCT075 36/21 A2992

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

104 land · 80 TO

46% of ops

89 land · 67 TO

Runway 31 carries 54% of operations (104 landings, 80 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

31 104 landings

UA 12%

13 89 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 31 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 104 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

5.3

flights/day · 160 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 8pm · 3pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 5.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.3× weekday (9.4 vs 4.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 147 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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