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K8U8 ·

Townsend Airport

46.33120°N

-111.48300°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 54.5%

DEP / DAY

▲ 80.0%

Townsend Airport (K8U8) is a small general aviation airport located in Townsend, MT, 148 mi west of Billings. It features 1 runway measuring 3,999 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

3,999 FT MAX

16/34

3,999 ft × 60

ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

86% of ops

31 land · 5 TO

14% of ops

5 land · 9 TO

Runway 34 carries 86% of operations (31 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 14%.

Approach quality

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

34 31 landings

UA 0%

16 5 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 31 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

2.5

flights/day · 74 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 8pm · 5pm

Day vs night

74%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 2.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.4 vs 3.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (36% of 74 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLC
Mag var:: 16° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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