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Fairbury Municipal Airport

40.18300°N
-97.16930°W
ARR / DAY
0
57.1%
DEP / DAY
0
75.0%

Fairbury Municipal Airport (KFBY/FBY) is a small general aviation airport located in Fairbury, NE, 50 mi south west of Lincoln. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,700 feet.

Current weather

From KLNK, 51 mi away (KFBY does not publish METAR)

42m ago
Temp
76°F
Wind
4 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLNK 280154Z 13004KT 10SM CLR 24/16 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP180 T02440161

Runway intelligence

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

17
52% of ops
11 land · 7 TO
35
29% of ops
6 land · 6 TO
11
14% of ops
3 land · 2 TO
29
5% of ops
1 land · 0 TO
Runway 17 carries 52% of operations (11 landings, 7 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

17 11 landings
UA 0%
35 6 landings
UA 0%
11 3 landings
UA 0%
29 1 landings
UA 100%
Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 11 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
1.5
flights/day · 44 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 12pm · 2pm
Day vs night
52%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–2pm local, averaging 1.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.2 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 44 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
UNICOM 122.700
OTHER 126.400
MARYSVIL 126.400
OTHER 293.000
FBY NDB 293.000
OTHER 317.700
MARYSVIL 317.700
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
6° E
Fuel:
100LL
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