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📍 Forest City⬆ 1,229 ft2 runways
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Forest City Municipal Airport

43.23470°N
-93.62410°W
ARR / DAY
4
800.0%
DEP / DAY
3
360.0%

Forest City Municipal Airport (KFXY/FXY) is a small general aviation airport located in Forest City, IA, 79 mi south west of Rochester. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,796 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

25m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
8047 m
Ceil
METAR KFXY 161015Z AUTO 00000KT 5SM BR CLR 18/18 A3010 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

27
53% of ops
82 land · 2 TO
33
37% of ops
57 land · 8 TO
15
6% of ops
10 land · 18 TO
09
4% of ops
6 land · 31 TO
Runway 27 carries 53% of operations (82 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

27 82 landings
UA 20%
33 57 landings
UA 9%
15 10 landings
UA 0%
09 6 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 20% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 82 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
3.2
flights/day · 96 total
Busy hour (local)
1am
also 3pm · 7pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1am–7pm local, averaging 3.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (2.0 vs 3.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 96 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 123.925
OTHER 122.600
MASON CI 122.600
OTHER 127.300
MASON CI 127.300
OTHER 257.675
MASON CI 257.675
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL
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