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Brantford Municipal Airport

43.13140°N
-80.34250°W
ARR / DAY
31
63.2%
DEP / DAY
51
54.5%

Brantford Municipal Airport (CYFD) is a small general aviation airport located in Brantford, Canada. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 31 arrivals and 51 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From CYKF, 23 mi away (CYFD does not publish METAR)

58m ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
10 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
CYKF 121538Z AUTO 21010KT 180V240 9SM SCT021 BKN130 23/18 A2988 RMK SLP114 DENSITY ALT 2400FT

Runway intelligence

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

23
41% of ops
777 land · 518 TO
35
16% of ops
313 land · 323 TO
29
14% of ops
265 land · 294 TO
05
11% of ops
205 land · 100 TO
17
9% of ops
175 land · 38 TO
11
9% of ops
169 land · 5 TO
Runway 23 carries 41% of operations (777 landings, 518 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

23 777 landings
UA 1%
35 313 landings
UA 4%
29 265 landings
UA 6%
05 205 landings
UA 3%
17 175 landings
UA 3%
11 169 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 23 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 777 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
40.6
flights/day · 1,217 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 5pm · 8pm
Day vs night
62%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 40.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (26.5 vs 47.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (60% of 1,042 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

13 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

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dazuppa
2/21/2012
re: Good place to visit
Reply to @dazuppa: Correction - SE ramp mentioned above, sorry! :-)
dazuppa
2/21/2012
Good place to visit
Brantford is very easy to find - an obvious triangular shape next to the only big town in the area. Wide, long, well-maintained runways and not so well maintained taxiways, huge ramps. A couple of semi-dismantled C-117 with square tails and oversized elevators at the end of the SW ramp (aviation buffs, check them out - those birds are rare now!) Reasonably busy, but with well-organized traffic and helpful unicom. A nice place to visit.
Anonymous
12/17/2009
re: federal $ coming
It is a commercial hanger that is going in on the South-East side of the airport, beside Gilbert's
Anonymous
8/30/2009
federal $ coming
Just announced - a new row of hangars are getting built.
david
8/8/2008
re: $100 Hamburger or Breakfast
Conk: the $100 hamburger is an old aviation joke: $5 for the hamburger, and $95 for the gas to fly to the airport and back. Nowadays, it's more like a $300 hamburger.
Conk
8/8/2008
$100 Hamburger or Breakfast
A $100 hamburger or breakfast???? Geeze-louise! This I gotta see! Will be coming up from Asheville, NC, USA in late August for the air show. I'll be sure and bring extra cash!
mculshaw
6/13/2008
Good breakfast
A good place for a $100 hamburger or breakfast. Open 7days a week 8am - 2pm.
viennatech
11/21/2007
EAA Chapter.
This airport is a main reason that I am a flier today. I went up on an EAA Young Eagles flight at the age of 16. There is a great EAA chapter on the field that is stuck in time. It is like walking into the 1940's going in there. Great people and great projects. A tribute to the romance of aviation. Definately worth a stop!
bcrosby
11/5/2007
Touch and Go
Just did a touch and go on a x-country from Buttonville. After reading these comments I wish I stayed and checked out the terminal. Maybe next time. Sunday afternoon, was pretty busy. 3 or 4 people doing their thing in the circuit.
tvguru
7/24/2007
Nice Gem
Beautiful airport keep it alive! Received my Multi here.
david
7/23/2007
re: I hope it stays
Brantford makes a big deal out of being the one-time home of Alexander Graham Bell -- in addition to his work on the phone, Bell was one of Canada's earliest and most important aviation pioneers and advocates, so it would be especially sad if Brantford's airport closed. How about renaming it to Brantford/Alexander Graham Bell Airport?
cvander
7/22/2007
I hope it stays
There is a petition circulating to put down efforts by the city to close the airport. I hope the city develops some long-range thinking about their short-sighted problems.
Flying_Celt
7/22/2007
Great Airport
My plane is hangared here :) ! C-FAKQ a 1976 Cessna Cardinal RG
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