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Banks Airport

44.16540°N

-68.42780°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 350.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

56m ago

Temp

74°F

Wind

10 kts

220°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBHB 271556Z AUTO 22010KT 10SM FEW019 23/19 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP193 T02330189 PNO $

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

60% of ops

12 land · 0 TO

40% of ops

8 land · 0 TO

Runway 28 carries 60% of operations (12 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 10 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

28 12 landings

UA 0%

10 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 28 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 12 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

1.3

flights/day · 39 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

79%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.0 vs 1.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 39 flights). Top three types: , , .

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