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KL05 ·

Kern Valley Airport

35.72830°N

-118.42000°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 350.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 300.0%

Kern Valley Airport (KL05) is a small general aviation airport located in Kernville, CA, 42 mi north east of Bakersfield. It features 1 runway measuring 3,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KNID, 41 mi away (KL05 does not publish METAR)

53m ago

Temp

101°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KNID 172056Z VRB04KT 10SM FEW080 BKN250 38/03 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP123 T03830033 58024 $

Runways

1 installed

3,500 FT MAX

17/35

3,500 ft × 50

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

100% of ops

41 land · 0 TO

0% of ops

0 land · 11 TO

Runway 35 carries 100% of operations (41 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17 at 0%.

Approach quality

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

35 41 landings

UA 0%

17 0 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 35 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 41 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

1.0

flights/day · 29 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 4pm · 8pm

Day vs night

55%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 1.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.9× weekday (1.5 vs 0.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

4 · 14%

2 · 7%

Activity is led by (14% of 29 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Elevation:: 2,614 ft
Mag var:: 14° E

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