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KSHN · SHN

Sanderson Field

47.23360°N

-123.14800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 31.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 30.3%

Sanderson Field (KSHN/SHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Shelton, WA, 33 mi west of Tacoma. It features 1 runway measuring 5,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 14 arrivals and 18 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 5 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

57°F

Wind

10 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSHN 190653Z AUTO 24010KT 10SM OVC006 14/13 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP182 T01390128 $

Runways

1 installed

5,005 FT MAX

05/23

5,005 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

80% of ops

483 land · 503 TO

20% of ops

120 land · 67 TO

Runway 23 carries 80% of operations (483 landings, 503 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

23 483 landings

UA 6%

05 120 landings

UA 10%

Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 483 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

30.0

flights/day · 899 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 6pm · 8pm

Day vs night

37%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 30.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (26.5 vs 32.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 700 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	121.100	—
APCH	290.900	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	119.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Pilot_1975

1/28/2012

Sanderson

Landed here to look at a Cessna 150. Nice clean airport. No courtesy car, not much for dining. Frequent skydiving. Great pilot lounge.

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