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Lake Preston Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Lake Preston⬆ 1,725 ft1 runways

Y34 ·

Lake Preston Municipal Airport

44.35730°N

-97.38480°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Lake Preston Municipal Airport (Y34) is a small general aviation airport located in Lake Preston, SD, 65 mi north west of Sioux Falls. It features 1 runway measuring 2,220 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KATY, 40 mi away (Y34 does not publish METAR)

59m ago

Temp

54°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KATY 171053Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/11 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP191 T01220111 $

Runways

1 installed

2,220 FT MAX

12/30

2,220 ft × 250

TURF-F● LIT

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

Approach quality

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

12 12 landings

UA 0%

30 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 12 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

0.6

flights/day · 17 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 9pm · 4pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 0.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (0.4 vs 0.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

3 · 19%

2 · 12%

1 · 6%

Activity is led by (19% of 16 flights). Top three types: , , .

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