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Bartow Executive Airport

27.94340°N
-81.78340°W
ARR / DAY
37
12.7%
DEP / DAY
32
20.2%

Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW/BOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Bartow, FL. It features 4 runways with the longest being 5,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 37 arrivals and 32 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

6h ago
Temp
97°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KBOW 162215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 36/21 A3005 RMK AO2 PWINO

Runway intelligence

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

09L
27% of ops
350 land · 266 TO
14
18% of ops
242 land · 20 TO
27R
13% of ops
164 land · 155 TO
23
12% of ops
158 land · 56 TO
27L
9% of ops
112 land · 27 TO
05
8% of ops
99 land · 17 TO
Runway 09L carries 27% of operations (350 landings, 266 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 14 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

09L 350 landings
UA 3%
14 242 landings
UA 19%
27R 164 landings
UA 5%
23 158 landings
UA 11%
27L 112 landings
UA 10%
05 99 landings
UA 15%
Approaches to 09L show a 3% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 350 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
47.9
flights/day · 1,436 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 12pm
Day vs night
83%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–2pm local, averaging 47.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (55.0 vs 47.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 1,081 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 121.200
TWR 121.200 0730-1730
TWR 121.500 0730-1730
GND 121.900 0730-1730
APCH 119.900
APCH 120.650
APCH 290.300
UNICOM 122.950
AWOS 123.775
LCL/P 121.200 0730-1730
LCL/S 121.500 0730-1730
EMERG 121.500 0730-1730
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMA
Mag var:
4° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 05:14 UTC