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📍 Nicholasville⬆ 906 ft1 runways

79KY ·

Lucas Field

37.87130°N

-84.61050°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 400.0%

Lucas Field (79KY) is a small general aviation airport located in Nicholasville, KY. It features 1 runway measuring 5,488 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KLEX, 11 mi away (79KY does not publish METAR)

29m ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KLEX 271754Z VRB04KT 10SM SCT032 OVC085 27/19 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP151 T02720194 10283 20194 58002

Runways

1 installed

5,488 FT MAX

09/27

5,488 ft × 100

CONC● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

63% of ops

22 land · 6 TO

37% of ops

13 land · 10 TO

Runway 09 carries 63% of operations (22 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

09 22 landings

UA 9%

27 13 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 09 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 22 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

1.9

flights/day · 56 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 12am · 1pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 1.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.5 vs 2.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 49 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
APCH	120.150	—
APCH	259.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZID
Mag var:: 5° W

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