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KFBY · FBY

Fairbury Municipal Airport

40.18300°N
-97.16930°W
ARR / DAY
1
33.3%
DEP / DAY
0
25.0%

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 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

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

41m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
12 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLNK 030130Z AUTO 17012KT 10SM CLR 31/18 A2981 RMK T03100180 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

17
53% of ops
23 land · 11 TO
35
28% of ops
12 land · 14 TO
11
9% of ops
4 land · 4 TO
29
9% of ops
4 land · 0 TO
Runway 17 carries 53% of operations (23 landings, 11 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

17 23 landings
UA 0%
35 12 landings
UA 0%
11 4 landings
UA 0%
29 4 landings
UA 50%
Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 23 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
1.7
flights/day · 51 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 2pm · 3pm
Day vs night
57%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–3pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.4 vs 1.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 51 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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