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📍 Valley City⬆ 1,402 ft4 runways
K6D8 ·

Barnes County Municipal Airport

46.94100°N
-98.01760°W
ARR / DAY
2
25.0%
DEP / DAY
3
24.0%

Barnes County Municipal Airport (K6D8) is a small general aviation airport located in Valley City, ND, 58 mi west of Fargo. It features 4 runways with the longest being 4,201 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KJMS, 31 mi away (K6D8 does not publish METAR)

53m ago
Temp
69°F
Wind
9 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KJMS 281556Z AUTO 13009KT 10SM CLR 21/13 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP173 T02060128

Runway intelligence

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

26
25% of ops
17 land · 4 TO
17
23% of ops
16 land · 4 TO
31
23% of ops
16 land · 13 TO
13
12% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
23
9% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
35
4% of ops
3 land · 4 TO
Runway 26 carries 25% of operations (17 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

26 17 landings
UA 0%
17 16 landings
UA 0%
31 16 landings
UA 0%
13 8 landings
UA 0%
23 6 landings
UA 17%
35 3 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 26 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
4.6
flights/day · 138 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 2pm · 10pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–10pm local, averaging 4.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.5 vs 4.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 133 flights). Top three types: , , .
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