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Taft Kern County Airport

35.14110°N
-119.44100°W
ARR / DAY
1
16.7%
DEP / DAY
1
33.3%

Taft Kern County Airport (KL17) is a small general aviation airport located in Taft, CA, 29 mi south west of Bakersfield. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,283 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

Temp
Wind
Visib
Ceil

Runway intelligence

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

25
47% of ops
15 land · 0 TO
21
44% of ops
14 land · 2 TO
07
6% of ops
2 land · 4 TO
03
3% of ops
1 land · 1 TO
Runway 25 carries 47% of operations (15 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 21 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

25 15 landings
UA 0%
21 14 landings
UA 0%
07 2 landings
UA 0%
03 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 25 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 15 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)
3pm
also 5pm · 4pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 1.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (1.6 vs 1.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (39% of 49 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
14° E
Fuel:
100LL
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