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Manistee County Blacker Airport

44.27274°N
-86.25195°W
ARR / DAY
5
27.1%
DEP / DAY
5
42.4%

Manistee County Blacker Airport (KMBL/MBL) is a small general aviation airport located in Manistee, MI, 89 mi east of Green Bay. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,501 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

just now
Temp
79°F
Wind
3 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KMBL 312356Z AUTO VRB03KT 8SM CLR 26/21 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP113 T02610206 10294 20261 53003

Runway intelligence

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

28
58% of ops
98 land · 62 TO
10
18% of ops
31 land · 29 TO
27
12% of ops
20 land · 12 TO
36
7% of ops
11 land · 1 TO
09
5% of ops
9 land · 12 TO
18
0% of ops
0 land · 6 TO
Runway 28 carries 58% of operations (98 landings, 62 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

28 98 landings
UA 3%
10 31 landings
UA 3%
27 20 landings
UA 5%
36 11 landings
UA 9%
09 9 landings
UA 0%
18 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 98 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
10.8
flights/day · 325 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 8pm · 7pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–7pm local, averaging 10.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (10.4 vs 11.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 253 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 118.825
WHITE CL 120.850
OTHER 120.850
WHITE CL 322.350
OTHER 322.350
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
6° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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