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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 56.7%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 10.3%

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 KSAC, 15 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

36m ago
Temp
74°F
Wind
8 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSAC 021953Z 25008KT 10SM FEW048 FEW055 BKN070 23/12 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP170 T02330122

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
43% of ops
290 land · 161 TO
27
37% of ops
245 land · 311 TO
36
10% of ops
70 land · 1 TO
09
9% of ops
62 land · 25 TO
Runway 18 carries 43% of operations (290 landings, 161 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

18 290 landings
UA 28%
27 245 landings
UA 11%
36 70 landings
UA 7%
09 62 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 18 show a 28% unstable-approach rate (82 UA events from 290 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
10.6
flights/day · 319 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
56%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 10.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (9.2 vs 11.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

73 · 26%
37 · 13%
37 · 13%
34 · 12%
21 · 7%
19 · 7%
Activity is led by (26% of 286 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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