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
37.3%
DEP / DAY
6
40.3%

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
35% of ops
102 land · 54 TO
28
34% of ops
99 land · 64 TO
10
11% of ops
31 land · 29 TO
36
9% of ops
27 land · 3 TO
09
9% of ops
27 land · 33 TO
18
2% of ops
5 land · 19 TO
Runway 27 carries 35% of operations (102 landings, 54 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

27 102 landings
UA 4%
28 99 landings
UA 3%
10 31 landings
UA 3%
36 27 landings
UA 7%
09 27 landings
UA 4%
18 5 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 27 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 102 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
12.8
flights/day · 385 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 8pm · 7pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–7pm local, averaging 12.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (11.5 vs 14.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 292 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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