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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 3.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 27.3%

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

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

16m ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

6 kts

100°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 250135Z AUTO 10006KT 10SM SCT120 28/20 A2993 RMK AO2 T02800200

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

53% of ops

283 land · 288 TO

28% of ops

151 land · 153 TO

13% of ops

70 land · 96 TO

6% of ops

34 land · 41 TO

Runway 19 carries 53% of operations (283 landings, 288 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

19 283 landings

UA 13%

18 151 landings

UA 13%

01 70 landings

UA 14%

36 34 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 19 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (38 UA events from 283 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

23.5

flights/day · 706 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 1pm · 3pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 23.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (18.0 vs 26.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (36% of 505 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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