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KEKY ·

Bessemer Airport

33.31290°N

-86.92590°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 12.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 20.9%

Bessemer Airport (KEKY) is a small general aviation airport located in Bessemer, AL, 16 mi south west of Birmingham. It features 1 runway measuring 6,007 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 12 arrivals and 17 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

3 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KEKY 251356Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 27/20 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP161 T02720200 $

Runways

1 installed

6,007 FT MAX

05/23

6,007 ft × 100

ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

55% of ops

212 land · 57 TO

45% of ops

176 land · 98 TO

Runway 23 carries 55% of operations (212 landings, 57 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

23 212 landings

UA 4%

05 176 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 23 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 212 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

31.1

flights/day · 933 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 4pm · 1pm

Day vs night

72%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 31.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (26.6 vs 34.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 760 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
APCH	124.900	—
APCH	351.850	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.825	—
OTHER	123.750	—
CD/P	123.750	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 3° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

12/31/2016

Wonderful Airport

Very helpful airport manager

Anonymous

03/06/2016

fuel

can I drive up and buy 1oo or better octane fuel from you guys and how much per gal is it.

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