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42KY ·

Pirates Cove Airport

36.77640°N

-88.22230°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPAH, 36 mi away (42KY does not publish METAR)

25m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPAH 271450Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 27/22 A2989 RMK T02700220 MADISHF

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

56% of ops

19 land · 0 TO

44% of ops

15 land · 8 TO

Runway 18 carries 56% of operations (19 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

18 19 landings

UA 0%

36 15 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 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

0.7

flights/day · 21 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 8pm

Day vs night

76%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 0.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (0.8 vs 0.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 21 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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