Airports / 42KY / Pirates Cove AirportPoor ground coverage

📍 Benton⬆ 380 ft1 runways

42KY ·

Pirates Cove Airport

36.77640°N

-88.22230°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Pirates Cove Airport (42KY) is a small general aviation airport located in Benton, KY, 51 mi west of Clarksville. It features 1 runway measuring 2,544 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPAH, 36 mi away (42KY does not publish METAR)

24m ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPAH 040553Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 25/24 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP136 T02500239 10322 20250 403670228 58005 $

Runways

1 installed

2,544 FT MAX

18/36

2,544 ft × 32

ASPH● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

17 land · 0 TO

35% of ops

9 land · 0 TO

Runway 18 carries 65% of operations (17 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

18 17 landings

UA 0%

36 9 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 17 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 · 19 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 0.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (0.8 vs 0.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

3 · 17%

2 · 11%

1 · 6%

Activity is led by (17% of 18 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZME
Elevation:: 380 ft
Mag var:: 1° E

Custom date range