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KFBY · FBY

Fairbury Municipal Airport

40.18300°N
-97.16930°W
ARR / DAY
1
33.3%
DEP / DAY
1
0.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

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

1h ago
Temp
96°F
Wind
10 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLNK 022254Z 18010KT 10SM CLR 36/20 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP080 T03560200

Runway intelligence

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

17
59% of ops
20 land · 10 TO
35
26% of ops
9 land · 14 TO
11
9% of ops
3 land · 3 TO
29
6% of ops
2 land · 0 TO
Runway 17 carries 59% of operations (20 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

17 20 landings
UA 0%
35 9 landings
UA 0%
11 3 landings
UA 0%
29 2 landings
UA 50%
Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 20 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
1.6
flights/day · 49 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 2pm · 12pm
Day vs night
55%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–12pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.4 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 49 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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