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📍 Wichita⬆ 1,408 ft1 runways

KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 11.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 34.6%

Beech Factory Airport (KBEC/BEC) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 8,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8m ago

Temp

97°F

Wind

3 kts

90°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 212355Z AUTO 09003KT 10SM SCT110 36/17 A3001 RMK AO2 T03600165 10377 20341

Runways

1 installed

8,001 FT MAX

01/19

8,001 ft × 100

CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

47% of ops

253 land · 263 TO

35% of ops

191 land · 192 TO

11% of ops

58 land · 77 TO

7% of ops

38 land · 48 TO

Runway 19 carries 47% of operations (253 landings, 263 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

19 253 landings

UA 13%

18 191 landings

UA 13%

01 58 landings

UA 14%

36 38 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 19 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (34 UA events from 253 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

23.8

flights/day · 714 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 3pm · 2pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 23.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (17.5 vs 27.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (37% of 506 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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