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📍 Valley City⬆ 1,402 ft4 runways
K6D8 ·

Barnes County Municipal Airport

46.94100°N
-98.01760°W
ARR / DAY
5
66.7%
DEP / DAY
7
40.0%

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 5 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

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

56m ago
Temp
76°F
Wind
9 kts
110°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KJMS 031656Z AUTO 11009KT 10SM FEW120 24/19 A2971 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N AND NE RAB05E30 SLP053 P0000 T02440194

Runway intelligence

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

26
22% of ops
28 land · 6 TO
31
22% of ops
28 land · 19 TO
17
22% of ops
27 land · 6 TO
13
14% of ops
17 land · 4 TO
23
8% of ops
10 land · 0 TO
35
6% of ops
8 land · 9 TO
Runway 26 carries 22% of operations (28 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 31 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

26 28 landings
UA 0%
31 28 landings
UA 0%
17 27 landings
UA 0%
13 17 landings
UA 0%
23 10 landings
UA 20%
35 8 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 26 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 28 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
5.1
flights/day · 154 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 10pm · 9pm
Day vs night
53%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–9pm local, averaging 5.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.9 vs 5.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 147 flights). Top three types: , , .
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