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Franklin Flying Field

39.42640°N

-86.05830°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 280.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 18.2%

Franklin Flying Field (3FK) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, IN, 24 mi south of Indianapolis. It features 1 runway measuring 2,400 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KIND, 24 mi away (3FK does not publish METAR)

22m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

5 kts

90°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KIND 290254Z 09005KT 10SM CLR 22/14 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP205 T02220144 53015 $

Runways

1 installed

2,400 FT MAX

03/21

2,400 ft × 35

ASPH-G● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

87% of ops

45 land · 0 TO

13% of ops

7 land · 16 TO

Runway 21 carries 87% of operations (45 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03 at 13%.

Approach quality

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

21 45 landings

UA 27%

03 7 landings

UA 29%

Approaches to 21 show a 27% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 45 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

3.0

flights/day · 91 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 7pm · 6pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 3.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (2.1 vs 3.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (29% of 90 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

07/24/2007

Home Sweet home!!!!!!!!!

This is my home airport, not to busy and not so empty that it makes you sad. There is flight training on the field and also a jump school. Avg as only, but who would lad a jet on 2300' of runway anyway? Come on down to 3fk and see us sometime.

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