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K3FU ·

Faulkton Municipal Airport

45.03190°N

-99.11570°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

DEP / DAY

▼ 75.0%

Faulkton Municipal Airport (K3FU) is a small general aviation airport located in Faulkton, SD, 157 mi north west of Sioux Falls. It features 1 runway measuring 3,249 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KABR, 44 mi away (K3FU does not publish METAR)

18m ago

Temp

95°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KABR 262253Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 35/21 A2974 RMK AO2 SLP060 T03500211 $

Runways

1 installed

3,249 FT MAX

13/31

3,249 ft × 60

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

60 land · 84 TO

48% of ops

55 land · 4 TO

Runway 13 carries 52% of operations (60 landings, 84 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 31 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

13 60 landings

UA 0%

31 55 landings

UA 22%

Approaches to 13 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 60 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

1.9

flights/day · 56 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 9pm · 1pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 1.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (2.5 vs 1.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 56 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Elevation:: 1,571 ft
Mag var:: 8° E

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