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📍 Valley City⬆ 1,402 ft4 runways
K6D8 ·

Barnes County Municipal Airport

46.94100°N
-98.01760°W
ARR / DAY
1
61.5%
DEP / DAY
1
47.4%

Barnes County Municipal Airport (K6D8) is a small general aviation airport located in Valley City, ND, 58 mi west of Fargo. It features 4 runways with the longest being 4,202 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KJMS, 31 mi away (K6D8 does not publish METAR)

43m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
3 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KJMS 020030Z AUTO 20003KT 7SM CLR 22/13 A2994 RMK T02200130 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

26
28% of ops
19 land · 4 TO
17
23% of ops
16 land · 4 TO
31
20% of ops
14 land · 12 TO
13
12% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
23
9% of ops
6 land · 0 TO
35
4% of ops
3 land · 4 TO
Runway 26 carries 28% of operations (19 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

26 19 landings
UA 0%
17 16 landings
UA 0%
31 14 landings
UA 0%
13 8 landings
UA 0%
23 6 landings
UA 17%
35 3 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 26 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 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
4.5
flights/day · 136 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 2pm · 10pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–10pm local, averaging 4.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.5 vs 4.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 130 flights). Top three types: , , .
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