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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 3.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 29.9%

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 11 arrivals and 18 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 4 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12m ago

Temp

88°F

Wind

9 kts

150°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 030235Z AUTO 15009KT 10SM CLR 31/16 A2991 RMK AO2 T03050160

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

39% of ops

302 land · 302 TO

34% of ops

261 land · 264 TO

16% of ops

127 land · 146 TO

11% of ops

82 land · 107 TO

Runway 18 carries 39% of operations (302 landings, 302 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

18 302 landings

UA 13%

19 261 landings

UA 13%

36 127 landings

UA 21%

01 82 landings

UA 20%

Approaches to 18 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (40 UA events from 302 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

26.0

flights/day · 780 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 1pm · 7pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 26.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (18.0 vs 30.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 543 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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