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Mettie Airstrip

46.71496°N

-120.32882°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 25.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Mettie Airstrip (US-0087) is a small general aviation airport located in Yakima, WA, 63 mi north west of Tri-Cities. It features 1 runway measuring 4,025 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 KYKM, 14 mi away (US-0087 does not publish METAR)

26m ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

5 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KYKM 290053Z COR VRB05KT 10SM FEW080 28/06 A2983 RMK AO2 SLPNO $

Runways

1 installed

4,025 FT MAX

12/30

4,025 ft × 75

PEM○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

22 land · 2 TO

35% of ops

12 land · 1 TO

Runway 30 carries 65% of operations (22 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

30 22 landings

UA 14%

12 12 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 30 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 22 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

1.0

flights/day · 31 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 3pm · 12am

Day vs night

52%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–5pm local, averaging 1.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (0.8 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

10 · 37%

5 · 19%

1 · 4%

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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

rrobledo

12/16/2009

code Z25 (KZ25)

The FAA uses Z14 for Tripod Airport, Aleknagik, AK

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