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Brookings Regional Airport

44.30480°N
-96.81690°W
ARR / DAY
18
▲ 41.8%
DEP / DAY
25
▲ 36.9%
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 18 arrivals and 25 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 2 carriers across 12 routes. The most active carrier is Flexjet LLC (Richardson (LXJ). The busiest route is to Des Moines International Airport (KDSM).

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

just now
Temp
79°F
Wind
3 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBKX 312356Z AUTO 31003KT 10SM CLR 26/18 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP140 T02610178 10278 20261 56006

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
42% of ops
200 land · 11 TO
30
39% of ops
186 land · 63 TO
12
14% of ops
68 land · 57 TO
17
5% of ops
25 land · 94 TO
Runway 35 carries 42% of operations (200 landings, 11 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

35 200 landings
UA 0%
30 186 landings
UA 0%
12 68 landings
UA 6%
17 25 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 35 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 200 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
22.0
flights/day · 661 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 3pm · 7pm
Day vs night
57%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 22.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.3× weekday (9.6 vs 27.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

388 · 62%
96 · 15%
31 · 5%
21 · 3%
19 · 3%
15 · 2%
Activity is led by (62% of 628 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

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