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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 42.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 54.4%

Beech Factory Airport (KBEC/BEC) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 8,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago

Temp

90°F

Wind

9 kts

110°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 121855Z AUTO 11009KT 10SM CLR 32/19 A2993 RMK AO2 T03240191

Runways

1 installed

8,000 FT MAX

18/36

8,000 ft × 100

CON● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

39% of ops

263 land · 261 TO

33% of ops

218 land · 207 TO

18% of ops

123 land · 140 TO

10% of ops

65 land · 86 TO

Runway 19 carries 39% of operations (263 landings, 261 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

19 263 landings

UA 12%

18 218 landings

UA 14%

36 123 landings

UA 22%

01 65 landings

UA 23%

Approaches to 19 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (32 UA events from 263 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

28.0

flights/day · 840 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 5pm · 12am

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–1pm local, averaging 28.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (16.4 vs 33.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 565 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	126.800	—
TWR	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
TWR	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI
GND	121.700	0700-1730 MON-FRI
APCH	134.800	—
APCH	269.100	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
AWOS	119.450	—
EMERG	121.500	0700-1730 MON-FRI
OTHER	125.000	—
CD/P	125.000	—
LCL/P	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
LCL/P	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 4° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

11/15/2007

Home of Beechcraft

As the airport name suggests, this is where Bonanzas, Barons, etc. take off from the first time. It's only 2 miles from Cessna's home field (KCEA).

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