📍 Burlington/Mount Vernon⬆ 144 ft2 runways

KBVS · MVW

Skagit Regional Airport

48.47090°N

-122.42100°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 12.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 23.6%

Skagit Regional Airport (KBVS/MVW) is a small general aviation airport located in Burlington/Mount Vernon, WA, 36 mi north of Everett. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,480 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 25 arrivals and 24 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

17h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

9 kts

310°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBVS 010135Z AUTO 31009G15KT 10SM CLR 18/12 A2979 RMK A01

Runways

2 installed

5,480 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

69% of ops

853 land · 867 TO

24% of ops

294 land · 170 TO

4% of ops

46 land · 7 TO

3% of ops

40 land · 136 TO

Runway 29 carries 69% of operations (853 landings, 867 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 11 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

29 853 landings

UA 9%

11 294 landings

UA 7%

04 46 landings

UA 11%

22 40 landings

UA 20%

Approaches to 29 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (81 UA events from 853 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

46.3

flights/day · 1,390 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 10pm · 8pm

Day vs night

37%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 46.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (42.9 vs 49.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 1,005 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.075	—
APCH	120.700	—
APCH	270.800	—
UNICOM	123.075	—
AWOS	121.125	—

Airport operations

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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

stingraydoctor

10/03/2011

Excellent airport

Corporate air is just great. Fueling is fast and the courtesy car is almost always there. I'll second the Kitty Hawk Cafe, good food and good view of the runway.

Pilot_1975

09/07/2011

My home base

Great out of the way overbuilt airport. Hardly ever used but first class home port.

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