📍 Eastsound⬆ 31 ft1 runways

KORS · ESD

Orcas Island Airport

48.70820°N

-122.91000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 32.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 24.8%

ON-TIME

—

schedules pending

AVG DELAY

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7d window

Orcas Island Airport (KORS/ESD) is a small international airport located in Eastsound, WA, 24 mi north east of Saanich. It features 1 runway measuring 2,901 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 29 arrivals and 33 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 15 carriers across 19 routes. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 4% of observed flights. The most active carrier is Kenmore AIR Harbor (KEN). The busiest route is to Boeing Field King County International Airport (KBFI). At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 360 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

just now

Temp

66°F

Wind

6 kts

320°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

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METAR KORS 312355Z AUTO 32006KT 10SM CLR 19/14 A2983 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

2,901 FT MAX

16/34

2,901 ft × 60

ASPH-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

82% of ops

1,700 land · 610 TO

18% of ops

378 land · 1,233 TO

Runway 34 carries 82% of operations (1,700 landings, 610 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

34 1,700 landings

UA 9%

16 378 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 34 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (157 UA events from 1,700 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

81.6

flights/day · 2,448 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 10pm · 5pm

Day vs night

39%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–9pm local, averaging 81.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (91.5 vs 81.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 1,956 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	128.250	—
APCH	118.200	—
APCH	132.700	—
APCH	285.650	—
AWOS	135.425	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZVR
Mag var:: 17° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 2 PM · 1 movement every 360 s

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

ranna

12/07/2008

my home base

the best airport ever!

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