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42KY ·

Pirates Cove Airport

36.77640°N

-88.22230°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

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 3,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KM91, 74 mi away (42KY does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

72°F

Wind

4 kts

280°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KM91 082055Z AUTO 28004KT 6SM BR FEW003 SCT034 BKN039 22/22 A3011 RMK A01 P0001

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

18/36

3,000 ft × 32

ASPH● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

71% of ops

15 land · 0 TO

29% of ops

6 land · 0 TO

Runway 18 carries 71% of operations (15 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

18 15 landings

UA 0%

36 6 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 15 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

0.4

flights/day · 13 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 6pm · 7pm

Day vs night

77%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 0.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (0.8 vs 0.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

2 · 15%

1 · 8%

Activity is led by (15% of 13 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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