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Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N
-97.21500°W
ARR / DAY
8
▲ 32.5%
DEP / DAY
11
▼ 10.3%

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 8 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

24m ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
6 kts
90°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBEC 231335Z AUTO 09006KT 10SM CLR 22/17 A3014 RMK AO2 T02220168

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

19
50% of ops
267 land · 275 TO
18
33% of ops
175 land · 179 TO
01
12% of ops
62 land · 86 TO
36
6% of ops
34 land · 41 TO
Runway 19 carries 50% of operations (267 landings, 275 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

19 267 landings
UA 13%
18 175 landings
UA 13%
01 62 landings
UA 13%
36 34 landings
UA 21%
Approaches to 19 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (35 UA events from 267 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
23.6
flights/day · 709 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 1pm · 2pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 23.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (18.6 vs 26.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

190 · 38%
78 · 15%
69 · 14%
67 · 13%
20 · 4%
17 · 3%
Activity is led by (38% of 504 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

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
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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