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Brookings Regional Airport

44.30480°N
-96.81690°W
ARR / DAY
10
▼ 13.8%
DEP / DAY
15
▼ 26.6%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Brookings Regional Airport (KBKX/BKX) is a small regional airport located in Brookings, SD, 53 mi north of Sioux Falls. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 3 carriers across 6 routes. The most active carrier is NGH (NGH). The busiest route is to Denver International Airport (KDEN).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19h ago
Temp
84°F
Wind
11 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KBKX 052356Z AUTO 13011KT 10SM CLR 29/19 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP170 T02890189 10300 20278 56007

Runways

2 installed

6,000 FT MAX
12/30
6,000 ft × 100
ASP● LITHIGH
17/35
3,600 ft × 60
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

30
46% of ops
168 land · 82 TO
35
40% of ops
145 land · 11 TO
12
8% of ops
31 land · 22 TO
17
6% of ops
23 land · 55 TO
Runway 30 carries 46% of operations (168 landings, 82 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

30 168 landings
UA 0%
35 145 landings
UA 0%
12 31 landings
UA 0%
17 23 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 168 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
24.1
flights/day · 722 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 5pm · 12pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–3pm local, averaging 24.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (11.4 vs 30.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

478 · 68%
117 · 17%
16 · 2%
14 · 2%
13 · 2%
11 · 2%
Activity is led by (68% of 706 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 119.925 —
APT REMA 121.725 —
OTHER 121.725 —
BROOKING 122.600 —
OTHER 122.600 —
OTHER 132.050 —
SIOUX FA 132.050 —
OTHER 317.400 —
SIOUX FA 317.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° 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 19:24 UTC