Manistee County Blacker Airport satellite view
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KMBL · MBL

Manistee County Blacker Airport

44.27274°N
-86.25195°W
ARR / DAY
5
21.4%
DEP / DAY
7
77.8%

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 5,502 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KTVC, 46 mi away (KMBL does not publish METAR)

39m ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
5 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KTVC 181053Z 20005KT 10SM FEW070 BKN250 17/15 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP121 T01720150

Runway intelligence

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

28
27% of ops
59 land · 29 TO
27
27% of ops
58 land · 18 TO
36
22% of ops
48 land · 2 TO
10
13% of ops
28 land · 18 TO
09
10% of ops
22 land · 23 TO
18
1% of ops
2 land · 20 TO
Runway 28 carries 27% of operations (59 landings, 29 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

28 59 landings
UA 2%
27 58 landings
UA 0%
36 48 landings
UA 8%
10 28 landings
UA 0%
09 22 landings
UA 0%
18 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 28 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 59 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
9.7
flights/day · 291 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 8pm · 5pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 9.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (10.6 vs 9.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 193 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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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 11:32 UTC