United States · elevation 378 ft AMSL
· 42.8525, -73.9289
Schenectady County Airport is an airport with the ICAO code KSCH and the IATA code SCH. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Schenectady. OurAirports classifies it as a medium-sized airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KS prefix, which marks airports in United States. The four-letter code KSCH is used in flight operations and weather reports, while the three-letter IATA code SCH is used for ticketing and baggage handling. The airport reference point sits at 42°51'09"N, 73°55'44"W, at an elevation of 378 ft (115 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/New_York.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | 40° | 2,134 m (7,001 ft) | 46 m (150 ft) | asphalt |
| 22 | 220° | |||
| 10 | 100° | 1,478 m (4,850 ft) | 46 m (150 ft) | asphalt |
| 28 | 280° |
The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.
Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Schenectady County Airport has 2 runways: 04/22 - 2,134 m long (7,001 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface; 10/28 - 1,478 m long (4,850 ft), 46 m wide, asphalt surface.
The longest of them is 04/22, at 2,134 m.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 04/22 on 40° and 220° magnetic, 10/28 on 100° and 280° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 04/22 axis, wind from the south-east (around 130°) or from the north-west (around 310°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 40° or 220° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for Schenectady County Airport are published under the ICAO code KSCH. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the KSCH report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for KSCH, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/New_York zone is GMT-05:00 in winter and GMT-04:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Albany International Airport (KALB, 16 km), William H Morse State Airport (Bennington) (KDDH, 56 km), Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport (Glens Falls) (KGFL, 60 km). When no report is available for KSCH, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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