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📍 Franklin⬆ 21 ft2 runways

KF72 ·

Franklin Field

38.30490°N

-121.43000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KMHR, 19 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

41m ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

9 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KMHR 060155Z AUTO 21009KT 10SM CLR 27/05 A2989 RMK AO2 T02700053 $

Runways

2 installed

3,123 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

41% of ops

335 land · 422 TO

39% of ops

319 land · 182 TO

11% of ops

91 land · 23 TO

8% of ops

69 land · 2 TO

Runway 27 carries 41% of operations (335 landings, 422 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

27 335 landings

UA 9%

18 319 landings

UA 32%

09 91 landings

UA 10%

36 69 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 27 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (30 UA events from 335 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

10.9

flights/day · 326 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 9pm

Day vs night

53%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–9pm local, averaging 10.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (9.2 vs 12.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 288 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

WestSacRob

02/02/2008

This is the "training airport" for the KSAC flight schools

This airport is about 10 nm S of KSAC. This is where the pilots flying out of KSAC (including me) go to practice touch-and-go's, emergency landings and so forth. It can be quite busy on VFR weekends.

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