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KY47 ·

Oakland Southwest Airport

42.50310°N

-83.62370°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 7.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 9.5%

Oakland Southwest Airport (KY47) is a small general aviation airport located in New Hudson, MI, 17 mi north of Ann Arbor. It features 1 runway measuring 3,128 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPTK, 15 mi away (KY47 does not publish METAR)

42m ago

Temp

74°F

Wind

4 kts

100°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPTK 031653Z COR 10004KT 8SM SCT055 BKN080 OVC110 23/19 A2995 RMK OCNL LTGICCC DSNT NE-SE TS MOV E CB DSNT NE-SE MOV E RAE15 TSE52 SLP136 P0001 T02330194

Runways

1 installed

3,128 FT MAX

08/26

3,128 ft × 40

ASPH-F● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

56% of ops

162 land · 119 TO

44% of ops

129 land · 33 TO

Runway 26 carries 56% of operations (162 landings, 119 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

26 162 landings

UA 24%

08 129 landings

UA 15%

Approaches to 26 show a 24% unstable-approach rate (39 UA events from 162 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

7.8

flights/day · 235 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 7.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (5.6 vs 9.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 215 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	132.350	—
APCH	284.000	—
UNICOM	122.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOB
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

wolfgangx

09/18/2018

(no subject)

The trees are taller than they appear. Know your short field performance and maybe don't take off at gross weight if its close. Bonanza V35 at gross was too close for comfort on takeoff.

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