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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 6.8%
DEP / DAY
6
▼ 12.2%

Franklin Field (KF72) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,123 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KC83, 35 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

just now
Temp
73°F
Wind
18 kts
280°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KC83 312355Z AUTO 28018G23KT 10SM CLR 23/11 A2986 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

3,123 FT MAX
09/27
3,031 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit
18/36
3,123 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

18
41% of ops
309 land · 170 TO
27
39% of ops
293 land · 369 TO
36
10% of ops
75 land · 2 TO
09
10% of ops
72 land · 25 TO
Runway 18 carries 41% of operations (309 landings, 170 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

18 309 landings
UA 28%
27 293 landings
UA 10%
36 75 landings
UA 7%
09 72 landings
UA 11%
Approaches to 18 show a 28% unstable-approach rate (87 UA events from 309 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
11.8
flights/day · 353 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 11.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (9.2 vs 13.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

80 · 25%
45 · 14%
41 · 13%
38 · 12%
22 · 7%
20 · 6%
Activity is led by (25% of 315 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
16° E

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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
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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