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79KY ·

Lucas Field

37.87130°N

-84.61050°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Lucas Field (79KY) is a small general aviation airport located in Nicholasville, KY. It features 1 runway measuring 5,488 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KLEX, 11 mi away (79KY does not publish METAR)

20m ago

Temp

89°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KLEX 152154Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 32/24 A3010 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT NE AND E RAB02E21 SLP180 P0008 T03170239 $

Runways

1 installed

5,488 FT MAX

09/27

5,488 ft × 100

CONC● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

70% of ops

38 land · 24 TO

30% of ops

16 land · 11 TO

Runway 09 carries 70% of operations (38 landings, 24 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

09 38 landings

UA 5%

27 16 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 09 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 38 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

2.0

flights/day · 61 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 2pm · 8pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–8pm local, averaging 2.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.2 vs 2.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 53 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
APCH	120.150	—
APCH	259.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZID
Mag var:: 5° W

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