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KY47 ·

Oakland Southwest Airport

42.50310°N

-83.62370°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 19.5%

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)

57m ago

Temp

80°F

Wind

6 kts

340°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPTK 030153Z COR 34006KT 10SM BKN080 BKN250 27/22 A2993 RMK SLP127 T02670217

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

58% of ops

174 land · 126 TO

42% of ops

128 land · 33 TO

Runway 26 carries 58% of operations (174 landings, 126 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 42%.

Approach quality

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

26 174 landings

UA 23%

08 128 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 26 show a 23% unstable-approach rate (40 UA events from 174 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 · 233 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

62%

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 211 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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