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Mettie Airstrip

46.71496°N

-120.32882°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 150.0%

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)

19m ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

9 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KYKM 032253Z 16009KT 10SM CLR 21/04 A2977 RMK AO2 SLP077 T02110039

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

55% of ops

28 land · 3 TO

45% of ops

23 land · 2 TO

Runway 30 carries 55% of operations (28 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

30 28 landings

UA 18%

12 23 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 30 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 28 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 · 28 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 12am · 3am

Day vs night

50%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3am–5pm 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

7 · 30%

4 · 17%

1 · 4%

Activity is led by (30% of 23 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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