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Banks Airport

44.16540°N

-68.42780°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Banks Airport (ME5) is a small general aviation airport located in Swans Island, ME, 172 mi north east of Manchester. It features 1 runway measuring 1,500 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBHB, 20 mi away (ME5 does not publish METAR)

47m ago

Temp

59°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBHB 012356Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 15/12 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP205 T01500122 10228 20150 53014 $

Runways

1 installed

1,500 FT MAX

10/28

1,500 ft × 30

GRVL○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

16 land · 0 TO

36% of ops

9 land · 0 TO

Runway 28 carries 64% of operations (16 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

28 16 landings

UA 0%

10 9 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 28 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 16 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

1.6

flights/day · 47 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 7pm · 2pm

Day vs night

83%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (2.0 vs 1.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (30% of 47 flights). Top three types: , , .

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