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Brookings Regional Airport

44.30480°N
-96.81690°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 60.0%
DEP / DAY
8
▲ 20.8%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Brookings Regional Airport (KBKX/BKX) is a small regional airport located in Brookings, SD, 53 mi north of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 3 carriers across 7 routes. The most active carrier is NGH (NGH). The busiest route is to Pierre Regional Airport (KPIR).

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

29m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
11 kts
100°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
SPECI KBKX 250929Z AUTO 10011KT 10SM -RA FEW037 SCT045 OVC110 18/17 A2999 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT S AND SW TSE23 PRESFR P0000

Runways

2 installed

6,000 FT MAX
12/30
6,000 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
17/35
3,600 ft × 60
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

35
40% of ops
82 land · 6 TO
30
37% of ops
77 land · 31 TO
12
16% of ops
33 land · 24 TO
17
7% of ops
15 land · 53 TO
Runway 35 carries 40% of operations (82 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

35 82 landings
UA 1%
30 77 landings
UA 0%
12 33 landings
UA 0%
17 15 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 35 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 82 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
13.4
flights/day · 401 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 8pm · 2pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 13.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (9.6 vs 15.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

199 · 53%
60 · 16%
20 · 5%
15 · 4%
14 · 4%
14 · 4%
Activity is led by (53% of 374 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 119.925 —
OTHER 121.725 —
APT REMA 121.725 —
OTHER 122.600 —
BROOKING 122.600 —
OTHER 132.050 —
SIOUX FA 132.050 —
OTHER 317.400 —
SIOUX FA 317.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL

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
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