Sky Ranch At Carefree Airport satellite view

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18AZ ·

Sky Ranch At Carefree Airport

33.81854°N

-111.89833°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 16.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 19.2%

Sky Ranch At Carefree Airport (18AZ) is a small general aviation airport located in Carefree, AZ, 21 mi north of Scottsdale. It features 1 runway measuring 4,029 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

4,029 FT MAX

06/24

4,029 ft × 50

ASPH● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

50% of ops

55 land · 38 TO

50% of ops

54 land · 64 TO

Runway 06 carries 50% of operations (55 landings, 38 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 50%.

Approach quality

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

06 55 landings

UA 29%

24 54 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 06 show a 29% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 55 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

6.5

flights/day · 196 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 1pm · 2pm

Day vs night

83%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 6.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.0 vs 7.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 161 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
UNICOM	122.725	—
AWOS	125.625	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAB
Elevation:: 2,569 ft
Mag var:: 13° E
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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