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📍 Famoso⬆ 635 ft1 runways

KL73 ·

Poso Kern County Airport

35.59660°N

-119.12800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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 KBFL, 12 mi away (KL73 does not publish METAR)

38m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

7 kts

280°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBFL 042330Z AUTO 28007KT 10SM CLR 29/12 A2986 RMK T02900120 MADISHF

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

93% of ops

125 land · 5 TO

7% of ops

10 land · 25 TO

Runway 34 carries 93% of operations (125 landings, 5 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 7%.

Approach quality

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

34 125 landings

UA 10%

16 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 125 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

8.0

flights/day · 240 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 4pm · 11pm

Day vs night

55%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–11pm local, averaging 8.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (5.4 vs 9.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (62% of 223 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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