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📍 Ham Lake⬆ 895 ft1 runways

MN87 ·

Cooks Landing Airport

45.24360°N

-93.22170°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Cooks Landing Airport (MN87) is a small general aviation airport located in Ham Lake, MN, 18 mi north of Minneapolis. It features 1 runway measuring 1,070 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KSTP, 23 mi away (MN87 does not publish METAR)

23m ago

Temp

87°F

Wind

5 kts

170°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSTP 022353Z 17005KT 10SM CLR 31/18 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP099 T03060183 10317 20272 56005

Runways

1 installed

1,070 FT MAX

18/36

1,070 ft × 120

GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

85% of ops

17 land · 6 TO

15% of ops

3 land · 6 TO

Runway 36 carries 85% of operations (17 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 15%.

Approach quality

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

36 17 landings

UA 41%

18 3 landings

UA 33%

Approaches to 36 show a 41% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 17 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

0.9

flights/day · 27 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 3pm · 7pm

Day vs night

48%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–7pm local, averaging 0.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (0.9 vs 1.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (37% of 27 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Elevation:: 905 ft
Mag var:: 3° E

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