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📍 Wichita⬆ 1,408 ft1 runways

KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 19.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 13.8%

Beech Factory Airport (KBEC/BEC) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 8,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

4h ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

6 kts

150°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 180755Z AUTO 15006KT 10SM CLR 20/17 A3005 RMK AO2 T02040172

Runways

1 installed

8,000 FT MAX

18/36

8,000 ft × 100

CON● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

49% of ops

360 land · 370 TO

33% of ops

243 land · 252 TO

11% of ops

78 land · 112 TO

7% of ops

51 land · 68 TO

Runway 18 carries 49% of operations (360 landings, 370 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

18 360 landings

UA 12%

19 243 landings

UA 14%

36 78 landings

UA 15%

01 51 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 18 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (44 UA events from 360 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

25.8

flights/day · 774 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 1pm · 2pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 25.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (18.9 vs 29.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (36% of 551 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	126.800	—
TWR	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
TWR	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI
GND	121.700	0700-1730 MON-FRI
APCH	134.800	—
APCH	269.100	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
AWOS	119.450	—
EMERG	121.500	0700-1730 MON-FRI
OTHER	125.000	—
CD/P	125.000	—
LCL/P	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
LCL/P	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 4° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

11/15/2007

Home of Beechcraft

As the airport name suggests, this is where Bonanzas, Barons, etc. take off from the first time. It's only 2 miles from Cessna's home field (KCEA).

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