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Brookings Regional Airport

44.30480°N
-96.81690°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 53.8%
DEP / DAY
7
▼ 51.0%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Brookings Regional Airport (KBKX/BKX) is a small regional airport located in Brookings, SD, 53 mi north of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,231 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 2 carriers across 3 routes. The most active carrier is NGH (NGH). The busiest route is to Spirit of St Louis Airport (KSUS).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

9h ago
Temp
81°F
Wind
8 kts
260°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBKX 172356Z AUTO 26008KT 10SM CLR 27/19 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP152 T02720194 10300 20272 56015

Runways

2 installed

5,231 FT MAX
12/30
5,231 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
17/35
3,599 ft × 60
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

30
43% of ops
158 land · 63 TO
35
36% of ops
133 land · 9 TO
12
16% of ops
58 land · 34 TO
17
6% of ops
21 land · 78 TO
Runway 30 carries 43% of operations (158 landings, 63 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

30 158 landings
UA 0%
35 133 landings
UA 2%
12 58 landings
UA 0%
17 21 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 158 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
14.8
flights/day · 444 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 8pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 14.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (10.1 vs 17.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

228 · 54%
68 · 16%
21 · 5%
14 · 3%
13 · 3%
12 · 3%
Activity is led by (54% of 419 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 119.925 —
OTHER 121.725 —
APT REMA 121.725 —
OTHER 122.600 —
BROOKING 122.600 —
OTHER 132.050 —
SIOUX FA 132.050 —
OTHER 317.400 —
SIOUX FA 317.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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