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KH96 ·

Benton Municipal Airport

38.00670°N

-88.93440°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 25.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 83.3%

Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) is a small general aviation airport located in Benton, IL, 75 mi west of Evansville. It features 1 runway measuring 4,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KMDH, 23 mi away (KH96 does not publish METAR)

32m ago

Temp

88°F

Wind

3 kts

150°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KMDH 040052Z 15003KT 10SM CLR 31/22 A2994

Runways

1 installed

4,002 FT MAX

18/36

4,002 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

69% of ops

53 land · 5 TO

31% of ops

24 land · 16 TO

Runway 18 carries 69% of operations (53 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

18 53 landings

UA 0%

36 24 landings

UA 8%

Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 53 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

2.4

flights/day · 72 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 12pm · 2pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 2.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.5 vs 2.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (30% of 69 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
OTHER	127.475	—
MARION R	127.475	—
OTHER	346.275	—
MARION R	346.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 2° W
Fuel:: 100LL

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