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42KY ·

Pirates Cove Airport

36.77640°N

-88.22230°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Pirates Cove Airport (42KY) is a small general aviation airport located in Benton, KY, 51 mi west of Clarksville. It features 1 runway measuring 2,544 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

2,544 FT MAX

18/36

2,544 ft × 32

ASPH● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

14 land · 0 TO

36% of ops

8 land · 4 TO

Runway 18 carries 64% of operations (14 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

18 14 landings

UA 7%

36 8 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 14 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

0.8

flights/day · 25 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 5pm · 8pm

Day vs night

72%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 0.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (0.5 vs 1.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

4 · 16%

2 · 8%

1 · 4%

Activity is led by (16% of 25 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZME
Elevation:: 380 ft
Mag var:: 1° E

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