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📍 Famoso⬆ 635 ft1 runways

KL73 ·

Poso Kern County Airport

35.59660°N

-119.12800°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Poso Kern County Airport (KL73) is a small general aviation airport located in Famoso, CA, 17 mi north of Bakersfield. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KVIS, 52 mi away (KL73 does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

91°F

Wind

3 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KVIS 312356Z AUTO 21003KT 10SM CLR 33/09 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP091 T03330089 10344 20256 56020 $

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

16/34

3,000 ft × 60

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

92% of ops

121 land · 3 TO

8% of ops

10 land · 17 TO

Runway 34 carries 92% of operations (121 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 8%.

Approach quality

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

34 121 landings

UA 11%

16 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 121 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

7.7

flights/day · 230 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 4pm · 6pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 7.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.8 vs 8.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (63% of 213 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Elevation:: 635 ft
Mag var:: 15° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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