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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 31.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 31.3%

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 11 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 3 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3d ago

Temp

90°F

Wind

8 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 310215Z AUTO 16008KT 10SM CLR 32/14 A2988 RMK AO2 T03150143

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

60% of ops

269 land · 268 TO

21% of ops

95 land · 125 TO

12% of ops

55 land · 56 TO

6% of ops

29 land · 34 TO

Runway 19 carries 60% of operations (269 landings, 268 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 21%.

Approach quality

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

19 269 landings

UA 13%

01 95 landings

UA 18%

18 55 landings

UA 15%

36 29 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 19 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (36 UA events from 269 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

23.2

flights/day · 697 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

65%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 23.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (20.1 vs 25.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 483 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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