Manistee County Blacker Airport satellite view
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KMBL · MBL

Manistee County Blacker Airport

44.27274°N
-86.25195°W
ARR / DAY
6
22.4%
DEP / DAY
6
31.1%

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 6 arrivals and 6 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

27
36% of ops
130 land · 56 TO
28
28% of ops
103 land · 67 TO
36
15% of ops
56 land · 3 TO
09
10% of ops
36 land · 42 TO
10
9% of ops
34 land · 29 TO
18
1% of ops
5 land · 30 TO
Runway 27 carries 36% of operations (130 landings, 56 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

27 130 landings
UA 3%
28 103 landings
UA 2%
36 56 landings
UA 4%
09 36 landings
UA 3%
10 34 landings
UA 3%
18 5 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 27 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 130 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
13.6
flights/day · 407 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 8pm · 5pm
Day vs night
67%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 13.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (12.8 vs 14.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 306 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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