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KMIT · MIT

Shafter Airport - Minter Field

35.50740°N
-119.19200°W
ARR / DAY
6
19.4%
DEP / DAY
10
18.6%

Shafter Airport - Minter Field (KMIT/MIT) is a small general aviation airport located in Shafter, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,501 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KBFL, 9 mi away (KMIT does not publish METAR)

43m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KBFL 190530Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 31/10 A2991 RMK T03100100 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

12
43% of ops
100 land · 25 TO
30
26% of ops
59 land · 17 TO
35
24% of ops
55 land · 7 TO
17
7% of ops
16 land · 22 TO
Runway 12 carries 43% of operations (100 landings, 25 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

12 100 landings
UA 10%
30 59 landings
UA 7%
35 55 landings
UA 15%
17 16 landings
UA 12%
Approaches to 12 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 100 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
13.0
flights/day · 391 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 3pm
Day vs night
62%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 13.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (12.4 vs 13.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (58% of 346 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900
APCH 126.450
APCH 270.300
AWOS 121.125
BAKERSFI 127.100
OTHER 127.100
BAKERSFI 317.700
OTHER 317.700
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
13° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 06:13 UTC