📍 Eastsound⬆ 31 ft1 runways

KORS · ESD

Orcas Island Airport

48.70820°N

-122.91000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 22.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 19.6%

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 31 arrivals and 33 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 13 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

4m ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

8 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KORS 262135Z AUTO 16008KT 120V190 10SM CLR 21/13 A3001 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

84% of ops

1,096 land · 452 TO

16% of ops

212 land · 631 TO

Runway 34 carries 84% of operations (1,096 landings, 452 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

34 1,096 landings

UA 9%

16 212 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 34 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (97 UA events from 1,096 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

79.6

flights/day · 2,388 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 10pm · 5pm

Day vs night

39%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–9pm local, averaging 79.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (89.9 vs 79.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 1,925 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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