📍 Hood River⬆ 631 ft1 runways

K4S2 ·

Ken Jernstedt Airfield

45.67260°N

-121.53600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 20.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 8.1%

Ken Jernstedt Airfield (K4S2) is a small general aviation airport located in Hood River, OR, 45 mi east of Gresham. It features 1 runway measuring 3,040 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K4S2 240535Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 17/12 A3002 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

3,040 FT MAX

07/25

3,040 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

54% of ops

125 land · 45 TO

46% of ops

106 land · 189 TO

Runway 07 carries 54% of operations (125 landings, 45 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

07 125 landings

UA 4%

25 106 landings

UA 11%

Approaches to 07 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 125 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

14.6

flights/day · 437 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 9pm · 3pm

Day vs night

48%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 14.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (16.5 vs 14.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (14% of 306 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	134.375	—
HOOD RIV	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Elevation:: 638 ft
Mag var:: 19° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Todtc

09/08/2008

Museum

Want to talk about an awesome museum?! This place has the WAAAM that houses a huge collection of early model FLYING aircraft and running automobiles. Everything is in perfect condition, even a Curtiss-Jenny with serial #1! As a bonus, you get to fly the Columbia Gorge to get there.

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