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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 2.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 4.8%

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 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 2 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

16m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

12 kts

170°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 050455Z AUTO 17012KT 10SM CLR 23/21 A2990 RMK AO2 T02300205

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

83% of ops

188 land · 78 TO

17% of ops

39 land · 43 TO

Runway 18 carries 83% of operations (188 landings, 78 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

18 188 landings

UA 30%

36 39 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 18 show a 30% unstable-approach rate (57 UA events from 188 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

15.8

flights/day · 474 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 3pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–6pm local, averaging 15.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (10.1 vs 18.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (44% of 291 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-05-14

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	126.800	—
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
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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